Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

[Tara Milana <learfox twu net>]

On 2003.10.18 23:02 Michael Torrie wrote:

> Did you ever solve that?  Tell us what exact distro you are using, how
> you installed all the libraries (which ones you compiled from source,
> and which were rpms or packaged).  What version of gcc did you use?  Be
> very specific.  Once we can solve the problem in this specific instance,
> we'll probably have the general knowlege to solve it in other instances.

Dear Micheal, what concearns me is the number of problems
other users are having with GTK. I am the head programmer
for WPE and we maintain over a dozen programs, none of which
have the amount of problems I've seen when I resigned on to
this list.

Anyways, the problem that I had was an unusual one, one
that none of my programmers nor myself have come across.
The problem occures with gdk-pixbuf:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/learfox/projects/pubsrc/gtk+-2.2.4/gdk-pixbuf'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la
-rpath /usr/lib -version-info 200:4:200 -export-symbols-regex "^[^_].*"
gdk-pixbuf.lo gdk-pixbuf-animation.lo gdk-pixbuf-data.lo gdk-pixbuf-io.lo
gdk-pixbuf-loader.lo gdk-pixbuf-scale.lo gdk-pixbuf-util.lo gdk-pixdata.lo
gdk-pixbuf-enum-types.lo pixops/libpixops.la   -Wl,--export-dynamic
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0    -lm
rm -fr  .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.exp .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver
generating symbol list for `libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la'
/usr/bin/nm -B  .libs/gdk-pixbuf.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-animation.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-data.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-io.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-loader.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-scale.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-util.o .libs/gdk-pixdata.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-enum-types.o  pixops/.libs/libpixops.a | sed -n -e 's/^.*[
       ]\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\)[ ][     
]*\(\)\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1 \2\3 \3/p' | /bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort
| uniq > .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.exp
grep -E -e "^[^_].*" ".libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.exp" >
".libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.expT"
mv -f ".libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.expT" ".libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.exp"
echo "{ global:" > .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver

cat .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.exp | sed -e "s/\(.*\)/\1;/" >>
.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver

echo "local: *; };" >> .libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver

        gcc -shared  .libs/gdk-pixbuf.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-animation.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-data.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-io.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-loader.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-scale.o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-util.o .libs/gdk-pixdata.o
.libs/gdk-pixbuf-enum-types.o -Wl,--whole-archive pixops/.libs/libpixops.a
-Wl,--no-whole-archive  -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm 
-Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
-Wl,-version-script -Wl,.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver -o
.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.200.4
/usr/bin/ld: anonymous version tag cannot be combined with other version
tags
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la] Error 1

I don't know what that error means, and I'm afraid I was not
able to parse the command used to link the library

--Tara