Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.2

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > I used configure, then tried to build rmp with gtkmm spec file.
> > The following errors was raised:
> >
> > File not found: /var/tmp/gtkmm2-2.2.2-root/usr/lib/*.so.*
> > File not found: /var/tmp/gtkmm2-2.2.2-root/usr/lib/*.so
> >
> > The reason is that destination library files are missing .so 
> > extension now.
> > How so?
> >    
>
> Very few people are using the spec.in files. It's very hard to get people to
> maintain it properly. Maybe you can revive this bug/patch:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109826
>  
I found the problem.

Configure file contains variable definition shrext=".so" (.dll and so 
on), and library_name uses shared_ext variable substitution instead of 
that one. I am affraid you may experience problems not only when using 
spec files, unless LD doesn't care if library has .so extension ommited.

Regards,
-andrew