Re: Problems with building GTK+ 2.4.3

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Hello there,
> 	I've recently obtained the GTK+ library as well as Pango, ATK, and
> GLib.  I was able to successfully build Pango, ATK, and GLib, and they've
> installed just fine.  However, GTK+ absolutely *refuses* to build, and I
> can't quite make any sense of it, because everything seems to be in order
> for it *to* build.
> 	The system in question has the following specs to it:
>
> 		Linux Kernel 2.4.20
> 		glibc 2.3.1
> 		gcc 3.2.2
> 		X.org X11R6.7.0
> 		FreeType 2.1.8 (IIRC, anyway, can't find the exact thing
> 			at the moment)
> 		Latest Stable Pango, ATK, GLib.
>
> 	The problem that I seem to be experiencing is this:
>
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall   -o gtk-demo
> appwindow.o button_box.o changedisplay.o colorsel.o dialog.o drawingarea.o
> editable_cells.o entry_completion.o expander.o hypertext.o images.o
> list_store.o menus.o panes.o pixbufs.o sizegroup.o stock_browser.o
> textview.o tree_store.o ui_manager.o main.o
> ../../gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la ../../gdk/libgdk-x11-2.0.la
> ../../gtk/libgtk-x11-2.0.la
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/gtk-demo appwindow.o button_box.o
> changedisplay.o colorsel.o dialog.o drawingarea.o editable_cells.o
> entry_completion.o expander.o hypertext.o images.o list_store.o menus.o
> panes.o pixbufs.o sizegroup.o stock_browser.o textview.o tree_store.o
> ui_manager.o main.o  ../../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so
> -L/usr/local/lib ../../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> ../../gtk/.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so
> /home/fd0man/gtk-stuff/gtk+-2.4.3/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -lXrandr
> -lXinerama -lXext -lXft /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz -lXrender -lfontconfig
> /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so
> /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so
> /home/fd0man/gtk-stuff/gtk+-2.4.3/gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so
> -lX11 /usr/local/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libpangox-1.0.so
> /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so
> /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl
> /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> ../../gtk/.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
> `pango_find_base_dir'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> 	What I've done with attempting to make this build is as follows:
> The first time I ran 'make' after './configure', I was greeted with an
> issue stating that I didn't have libgobjects.2.somethingoranother.la in
> /usr/lib.  Well, I knew that much, because everything had been installed
> in /usr/local/lib.  The solution that seemed to permit that to work was
> symlinking from the original files in /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib, and that
> seemed to permit the build to go on, until...
> 	Now.  I have this crazy message stating that there is an undefined
> reference to 'pango_find_base_dir', however, that's kinda mind-boggling.
> I checked /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so and saw that it did indeed have
> the function requested:
>
> fd0man mike:~/gtk-stuff/gtk+-2.4.3$ nm /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so
>  |grep find_base
> 0001d4ec T pango_find_base_dir
>
> 	So I'm not quite understanding where the compiler sees this as
> non-existant, when it very plainly exists right there in front of my face.
> Anyone who can help with this, would be very appreciated, and if there is
> any more information that is needed to help solve this, please feel free
> to ask me and I will try to provide it.  I just want to get this all
> working :-).

Make sure pkg-config can find its .pc files in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

Add this path in the shell: PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:
                                                     /usr/lib/pkgconfig"