Re: [gtkmm] ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.2

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

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > From: Andrew E. Makeev [mailto:andrew solvo ru] 
> > Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > 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.
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > Can you tell us something in terms of the configure.in file? 
> > >      
> > Maybe a line
> >    
> >
> > > number? I trust autoconf to do the right thing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Sorry, no can do :-(.
> > I am not so familiar with autoconf processing, I just found 
> > that it came 
> > from aclocal.m4 file, and this file was generated 
> > automatically too. Try 
> > to find a professional.
> >    
>
> Right, well, if you give us a real error report for the regular
> configure/make build then that might help. Otherwise we don't know anything
> more than that the .spec.in files don't work. And that's no great surprise.
>
>  
Well, as I suspected - you cannot build and run gtkmm applications, 
using LIBS from "pkg-config --libs gtkmm-2.0", because shared library 
files are missing .so extension after configure, make install. Don't 
worry about LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH environment variables, everything 
set properly.

Regards,
-andrew