gdk-pixbuf / anonymous version tags [was why is gtk so difficult...]

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Let's stop debating this particular problem as whether GTK+ is hard to
install or not. Getting errors about anonymous version tags is *not*
supposed to be part of the GTK+ install process, and certainly I don't
know  exactly what is going on here and how to fix it.
 
What I would say that is this is likely one of:
 
 - A bug in old versions of some system tools

 - An incompatibility between GTK+ and some versions of system tools.

 - Something unusual in how one of the base libraries in your
   system is built.

It's apparently unusual, since we have had exactly two reports - 
yours and the (unrelated to the bug) comment that was tacked onto
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103708. (That is, we
haven't yet had a valid bug report filed in bugzilla about it,
so it actually doesn't exist ;-)

If we get a good understanding of what is going wrong, then we can
look into whether we can make the configure process automatically
detect it and give a comprehensible error message, or to just work.

Knowing exactly what is in

 gtk+-2.2.4/gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.ver

when the error occurs would be interesting. My guess is it's
quite likely the generation of the version script that is going
wrong rather than anything else.

Regards,
					Owen