On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:25 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:15 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 16:45 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 13:35 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This isn't strictly speaking a fedora-devel subject, but I'm hoping a > > > > fellow packager or Fedora programming gurus can help. > > > > > You are probably missing -Wl,--export-dynamic when compiling your app. > > > > In that case, I've a bit of a problem here and I'm not sure what the > > right solution is (or which module to file a bug report against if it is > > a bug). > > > > Apparently, the pkg-config file for libglade2 (libglade-2.0.pc) doesn't > > include compiler-to-linker options to export symbols > > (-Wl,--export-dynamic). In fact, most applications which rely on > > libglade2 have been using other means of getting those symbols in. (in > > F7, it was through gmodule-2.0.pc (which got pulled in because the app > > uses libgnomeui-2.0.pc -> libgnome-2.0.pc -> libbonobo-2.0.pc). > > Unfortunately in F8, libgnomeui-2.0.pc eventually ends up pulling > > gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc, which, as the name implies, doesn't do symbol > > exporting. > > > > Either other app developers are adding additional libraries that they > > know needs to be added for libglade2 ... or everyone's just been plain > > lucky so far. > > > > As much as it feels to me like libglade-2.0.pc should have the export > > options (since apps using libglade2 almost always need it), I'm no > > expert and would defer to the community who's done more Gnome2 > > programming than I. > > The --export-dynamic is only needed if the libglade-using application > making use of the signal-autoconnection feature. I have no statistics > about this, but I've seen a fair number of glade files which don't use > it. The easiest way out is to add gmodule-export-2.0 to the list of > requires pkg-config modules for your application. Thanks. Almost done. How would that requirement best be put in a package? As far as I can tell, the package uses autotools. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
