On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Danie Roux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had a whole of lot of trouble with this gtk widget I wrote and
> wrapped in gnome-python. The module compiled and worked on RedHat, but
> would only compile on Debian. When I run it it would stop with
> "Undefined
> symbol ..."
>
> Turned out the problem was that RedHat patched Python so that modules
> are
> loaded with RTLD_GLOBAL.
>
> So after specifying that the module should link against all known
> libraries, it now runs. BUT it spits out a lot of errors like this:
>
> /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory
> gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
> /usr/share/themes/E-Brushed/gtk/bc.xpm
> All fallbacks failed.
>
> So what library do I still need to link in? Imagemagick is installed and
>
> the convert program does exist. My current LDSHARED looks like this:
>
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -lICE -lIIOP -lORBit -lORBitCosNaming
> -lORBitutil -lSM -lX11 -lXext -lXi -lart_lgpl -laudiofile -lc -ldb -ldl
> -lesd -lgdk -lgdk_imlib -lglib -lgmodule -lgnome -lgnomesupport
> -lgnomeui -lgnorba -lgtk -ljpeg -lm -lpng -ltiff -lz -rdynamic -shared
>
> Yes I know it's too much. I'm desperate. :-)
This is a bit of a FAQ :)
Either modify python to use RTLD_GLOBAL, or modify the imlib build
procedure so that the image loader modules are dynamically linked back to
gdk_imlib.
James.
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