Re: gtk+-2.8.6 link error I_ libgtk-x11-2.0.so

["Tom Crockett" <tmc insular com>]

Ok, something is borked, for sure.  Thanks for the feedback.  I don't know  
what.  No one else has
indicated that they have run into this problem, so I'm working under the
assumption that it is in my environment.

First, however, there was a problem with gtkcalendar.c.  The fix was a  
patched file (194)
that I only found via a reference to gtk cvs  in some googled list  
reference.  That
fixed the initial problem I had with compiling gtk+.

So now, trying to take a hint that something was borked, I looked around  
and found
a number of iterations of various gtk+ related libraries scattered around  
my
system, i.e. static and shared libs in /usr/lib; /usr/local/lib and  
/opt/sfw/lib with dates
going back to 2000.  I removed the older instances and tried a make  
distclean,
configure., make and got, unfortunately,  the same result.

The msgs about multiple inclusions which are a warning, and then the
show stopper of the undefined symbol I_ in ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so which  
I
suspect at this point is a macro definition problem in some include file.
I saw a reference to some variable being defined to I_ to save space or for
claritiy. ..

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2005-09-01  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen redhat com>

        * gdk/*.c: Intern some more strings.
        * gtk/gtkintl.h:
        * gtk/*.c: Define an I_() macro and use it instead of the
        bulky g_intern_static_string().

---end cvs---

One or two character symbols are very difficult to grep for.

Who knows if this (or somewhere else like it) is what is causing the  
problem.
GTK+ is a very complex project made even more so with all of the external
project dependencies that are also in development.

Hopefully, this will help someone help me find where the borking has  
occurred.
Thanks, Tom


On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:48:49 -0700, <Valdis Kletniekso vt edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:16:09 PDT, Tom Crockett said:
>
> > /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall    -o
> > gtk-query-immodules-2.0  queryimmodules.o libgtk-x11-2.0.la
> > ../gdk-pixbuf/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la       ../gdk/libgdk-x11-2.0.la
>
> Looks like a borked .la libtool file?  That might result in this:
>
> > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 queryimmodules.o
> > ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/local/lib  
> > /usr4/src/gtk+-2.8.6/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/openwin/lib
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so ../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so
> > ../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -lXext  
> > /usr/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Not sure why both of these got specified, because apparently they're two
> different references to the same file:
>
> > ld: warning: file ../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: linked to
> > /usr4/src/gtk+-2.8.6/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: attempted multiple  
> > inclusion of file
>
> (And the same issue applies to:)
>
> > ld: warning: file   
> > /usr4/src/gtk+-2.8.6/gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so: linked to
> > ../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so: attempted multiple inclusion  
> > of file
>
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> >   symbol                             in file
> > I_                                  ./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
>
> This looks like pre-processor borkage of some sort.  Looks like something
> was supposed to be substituted and it failed to happen...