Re: Problems building gtk+-2.2.4

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Aitor Garcia wrote:
> Hello everybody:
>  
> I am having problems building gtk+-2.2.4
>  
> Installation order followed:
>  
> 1 pkgconfig-0.15.0
> 2 glib-2.2.3
> 3 pango-1.2.5       
> 4 atk-1.2.4   
> 5 gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz
>  
> All the programs have been built using configure, make and make install with
> no options.
>  
> This is the error message I get when building gtk.
>  
> make[3]: Entering directory `/root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4/demos/gtk-demo'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o gtk-demo  
> appwindow.o button_box.o changedisplay.o colorsel.o dialog.o 
> drawingarea.o editable_cells.o images.o item_factory.o list_store.o 
> menus.o panes.o pixbufs.o sizegroup.o stock_browser.o textview.o 
> tree_store.o main.o ../../gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la 
> ../../gdk/libgdk-x11-2.0.la ../../gtk/libgtk-x11-2.0.la
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/gtk-demo appwindow.o button_box.o 
> changedisplay.o colorsel.o dialog.o drawingarea.o editable_cells.o 
> images.o item_factory.o list_store.o menus.o panes.o pixbufs.o 
> sizegroup.o stock_browser.o textview.o tree_store.o main.o  
> ../../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -L/usr/local/lib 
> ../../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
> ../../gtk/.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so 
> /root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so 
> /root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4/gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lXrandr 
> -lXinerama -lXft -lXrender -lXext /usr/lib/libfreetype.so 
> /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so 
> /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so 
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lX11 /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so 
> /usr/local/lib/libpangox-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so 
> /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so 
> /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm 
> -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libXft.so.1, needed by 
> /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so, may conflict with libXft.so.2
> ../../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_fprintf'
> ../../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
> `g_get_application_name'
> ../../gtk/.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_sprintf'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [gtk-demo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4/demos/gtk-demo'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4/demos'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk/gtk+-2.2.4'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>  
> It looks like the script is taking the library files  both from /usr/lib and
> /usr/local/lib. In the /usr/lib directory seems that there is an old version
> of the libraries and this causes the display of the error message.

Buggy libtool.

> How can I tell the script to take the library files only from  one 
> directory ?

Go into the relevant libtool (.la) archives and delete references
to /usr/lib objects that already have a /usr/local/lib equivalent.

> When installing, glib how can I tell the configure script to install the 
> library files in
> /usr/lib in order to avoid this error message ?

Set the environment variables as it says in the online installation manual.
(prefix etc)