Problems building testgtk

[Larry McQueary <mcqueary attbi com>]

Hi,

I'm compiling gtk+ 2.0.6 on Solaris 8 (sparc) with gcc 3.2 and the Sun 
linker and archiver (/usr/ccs/bin/ld and /usr/ccs/bin/ar, respectively). 
I am configuring with --disable-static.

I have had some problems building testgtk   Upon linking testgtk, I get 
undefined symbols for the following:

gtk_major_version
gtk_minor_version
gtk_micro_version

On closer inspection, it seems these are declared in gtkmain.c as 
"const" and therefore are treated by gcc-3.2 as private to the 
translation unit (gtkmain.c) and can't be exported.

I suppose there are four possible solutions, but I leave it to the folks 
who regularly code this stuff to comment:

1. Munge the configure script so that it provides some magical flag to 
gcc to make it export these variables (don't even know if this is 
possible, and don't care) if gcc is >= 3.x.  Very Ugly.

2. Have testgtk.c refer to GTK_MAJOR_VERSION, et al (from gtk.h), 
instead of gtk_major_version, et al. (from gtkmain.c).  I find this ugly 
and somewhat brute force.

3. Add a function similar to gtk_check_version to gtkmain.c, which will 
return these three values (major, minor, and micro version).  Like it.

All this being said, why hasn't anyone else run into this before?

Larry