Re: Messed up my GTK really, really bad

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> OK gang, go ahead and laugh.
>
> In the long and torturous path to getting an application going on my 
> system, I have meesed up my GTK tool chain something feirce.  Somewhere 
> along the line, I'managed to create a situation where gtk+2.09 from 
> source thinks glib-2.2.3 is installed in /usr/local/glib-2.2.3 as 
> evidenced by this:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall 
> -version-info 0:9:0 -export-dynamic -rpath /usr/lib 
> -export-symbols-regex "^[^_].*" ../gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la 
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXft -lXrender -lXext -lX11 -lfreetype -lz 
> -Wl,--export-dynamic -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 
> -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lm -o libgdk-x11-2.0.la 
> gdk.lo gdkcolor.lo gdkcursor.lo gdkdraw.lo gdkevents.lo gdkfont.lo 
> gdkgc.lo gdkglobals.lo gdkkeys.lo gdkkeyuni.lo gdkimage.lo gdkpango.lo 
> gdkpixbuf-drawable.lo gdkpixbuf-render.lo gdkpixmap.lo 
> gdkpolyreg-generic.lo gdkrgb.lo gdkrectangle.lo gdkregion-generic.lo 
> gdkwindow.lo gdkenumtypes.lo x11/libgdk-x11.la
> grep: /usr/local/glib-2.2.3/lib/libgobject-2.0.la: No such file or 
> directory
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/local/glib-2.2.3/lib/libgobject-2.0.la: No 
> such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/local/glib-2.2.3/lib/libgobject-2.0.la' is not a 
> valid libtool archive
> make[3]: *** [libgdk-x11-2.0.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gtk+-2.0.9/gdk'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gtk+-2.0.9/gdk'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gtk+-2.0.9'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> suggestions on how to fix this other than re-formatting would be very 
> much appreciated... I already did do a re-install

If you have old and new libraries installed, libtool can get confused.
Edit any of the above 2.09 .la files to remove dependency references to 2.2.3,
or else remove 2.2.3.