Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Mariano Suarez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:22, Paul Davis wrote:
> >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.

Maybe gtk's configure script could evolve into something admins could
add to their crontabs so that they get a weekly check on the well being
of their systems...

-- m


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