Re: GTK+-2 Fails on compiling the Documentation branch

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:56:05 -0600 (CST)
alupu verizon net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem compiling the GTK+-2 sources which
> has continued unabated for some time now.
> Please see Bug 631910 of 2010-10-11,
> but do not spend much time;  I'll update and 
> summarize the problem/resolution for gtk+-2.24.0
> in the following.
> 
> The good news is that with a very small change in two
> Makefiles, I've been able to compile successfully quite
> a few releases (up to and including 2.24.0).
> 
> The bad news is my confusion - what do the GTK
> developers do differently so that they haven't been
> bothered by this situation (or the Quality Control
> not to detect any failure on compile, like me)
[snip]

I get the same thing with the docbook tools which come with
slackware-13.1.  Curiously, the same problem does not arise with the
gtk+3 series.

Chris