Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>I assume some pre-existing libraries were linked with an older linker,
>then a newer linker was installed? The only solution in that case is
>for users to know the meaning of:
>   /usr/i386-pc-linux/bin/ld: anonymous version tag cannot be combined
>                              with other version tags
>
>Maybe ld should have a more meaningful error message on object/linker
>versions. It would be tedious to write an autoconf sanity check macro
>for every library to be linked.

thus proving (or at least confirming) sven's that this has nothing to
do with installing GTK, per se.