Trouble building gtk+-2.0 - undefined reference to `g_intern_static_string'

[Don Rozenberg <don rozenberg gmail com>]

Hi,

I am trying to build pygtk and it requires gtk+-2.0 >= 2.7 and so I am
trying to build gtk+-2.8.12 and keep running into the following
error:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 queryimmodules.o 
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/local/lib 
/home/rozen/pkg/gtk+-2.8.12/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
/usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so ../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so 
../gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so -lXrandr -lXinerama -lXext 
/usr/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so /usr/lib/libcairo.so 
/usr/local/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so 
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libcairo.so -lpng12 
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz -lfontconfig /usr/lib/libXcursor.so 
/usr/lib/libXrender.so -lX11 
/home/rozen/pkg/gtk+-2.8.12/gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so 
/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so 
/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_intern_static_string'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_object_compat_control'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I previously build and installed glib-2.9.6 with no apparent problem.

When I look at libraries in /usr/local/lib, I see the following:

Bash ajax rozen [~] ->nm /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so |grep 
g_intern_static_string
00012d60 t IA__g_intern_static_string
00012d60 T g_intern_static_string

and

Bash ajax rozen [~] ->nm /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so | grep 
g_object_compat_control
0000f690 T g_object_compat_control

It looks to me as though the references are indeed defined. So I am
missing something fundamental. I would certainly appreciate some
guidance.

I am running on Knoppix 4.0.2.

Thanks in Advance,
Don
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