While it might be tedious to have a properly working autoconf test, it is what is needed for a sane installation of the source. BTW - this problem is not just with gtk, but with gnome as well. Nothing is more fustrating than being told by a gtk application that lib xyz doesn't exist, when you can see the library in plain sight on the file system. Ruben On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:34:29AM -0300, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:22, Paul Davis wrote: > > >I assume some pre-existing libraries were linked with an older linker, > > >then a newer linker was installed? The only solution in that case is > > >for users to know the meaning of: > > > /usr/i386-pc-linux/bin/ld: anonymous version tag cannot be combined > > > with other version tags > > > > > >Maybe ld should have a more meaningful error message on object/linker > > >versions. It would be tedious to write an autoconf sanity check macro > > >for every library to be linked. > > > > thus proving (or at least confirming) sven's that this has nothing to > > do with installing GTK, per se. > > Maybe gtk's configure script could evolve into something admins could > add to their crontabs so that they get a weekly check on the well being > of their systems... > > -- m > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mariano Suárez-Alvarez > Departamento de Matematica - FCEyN - Universidad de Buenos Aires > Ciudad Universitaria, Pab. I. (1428) Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina > http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~aldoc9 > > De la observación de la irreductibilidad de las creencias últimas > he sacado la mayor lección de mi vida. Aprendí a respetar las ideas > ajenas, a detenerme ante el secreto de las conciencias, a entender > antes de discutir, a discutir antes de condenar. Y como estoy en > vena de confesiones, hago una más, quizás superflua: detesto con > toda mi alma a los fanáticos. > > Norberto Bobbio, Italia civil. > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... 1-718-382-0585 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
