gtk2/glib2 compile problems

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:26:11 -0700
begin  "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> spewed forth:

> I'm attempting to build gtk2 on a bastardized Caldera box.  gtk2 
> requires glib2, atk, and pango.  I'm trying to build atk and the 
> configure process keeps bombing out with this error:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgobject-2.0
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Unfortunately, i have gobject-2.0:
> # locate gobject-2.0
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-2.0.pc

what an odd name for a library.  All my shared object libraries look like:
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.0.6
and/or symlinks to the above

so on my system anyway, -lgobject-2.0, ld looks for libgobject-2.0

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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