Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures

[Kevin Spencer <vek perlmonk org>]

Blimey, on Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:10PM -0500, muppet wrote:
> what does your script look like?  what 'use' statements does it employ?  
>  note that if you attempt to use Gtk2::Window you will bring the house  
> down around your ears --- see below.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Gtk2::SimpleList;
use strict;

> you don't need a pm for TreeView, it is brought in with Gtk2 --- since  
> 0.20, Gtk2 consists of Gtk2.pm and Gtk2.so, rather than the single .so  
> and hundreds of .pms use by the old Inline stuff.
>
> SimpleList and a few other helpers (in the pm dir of the source dist)  
> are just gravy, stuff implemented in pure perl that *uses* Gtk2.
>
> if you have 'use Gtk2::Window;' or 'use Gtk2::TreeView;', you will be  
> picking up the old Inline-based stuff, and attempting to mix the two  
> incompatible versions.

I think I'm confused.  Doesn't Gtk2::SimpleList pull in Gtk2::TreeView:

use base 'Gtk2::TreeView';

I have Gtk2::Treeview installed in a systemwide directory (presumably
from the mdk 9.1 original install).  It has a BEGIN block that I think
is the cause of the nastiness:

BEGIN { do 'Gtk2/_config.pm'; $@ and die }

If you recall, the original error came from that _config.pm:

[vek on localhost, Linux - 2.4.21-0.13mdk, bash]-{50}
[~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2]
->perl -c SimpleList.pm
Can't find 'boot_Gtk2__GType' symbol in
/home/vek/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
 at
 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2/_config.pm
 line 0
         ...propagated at
                 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2/GType.pm
                 line 11.

Thanks again for your patience, am I making this 500 times harder than
it needs to be?? :-)

--
Kev.