CC'ing -mentors
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Andrew Gainer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks once again for your help. Just one question, now: > >> Ah, that means that you're doing a -lfontconfig, but it's not being >> called anywhere in the code. It's a warning from your linker, just >> letting you know that the ELF will be linked against something that >> can (and should) be removed. >> >> You can tweek the build flags for that guy (totally worth doing!) >> > > On investigation, it appears that the problem comes from these three lines in > the Makefile.in files: > GTK_CFLAGS = @GTK_CFLAGS@ > GTK_LIBS = @GTK_LIBS@ > LIBS = @GTK_LIBS@ @ALSA_LIBS@ > where $(LIBS) and $(GTK_CFLAGS) are used later in the actual invocations of > the compiler and linker. The variables @GTK_CFLAGS@ and @GTK_LIBS@ are being > replaced with calls to lots of libraries, most of which are not needed. > I don't know much about the Automake system or GTK, so I'm not sure what the > correct fix is. For now, I've simply added a patch which replaces the above > lines with > GTK_CFLAGS = -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include > GTK_LIBS = -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 > LIBS = $(GTK_LIBS) $(ALSA_LIBS) > This seems to represent a minimal subset of the included libraries which are > actually required (at least on my system). With this patch in place, debuild > runs cleanly and without the warnings. However, I have no idea whether this > is the correct response or a fragile/system-specific/generally awful patch. > Can you comment? > > --Andrew > Yeah, that can be a bit finikey. It's not the end of the world for sure, but you might want to look into `pkg-config' to do some of the work for you :) It might also be good to test with binutils-gold. I think I have that on my system -- could be why it worked without error here :) Cheers! Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
