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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:57:18 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: gtk2-x11: Functions whose name started with '_'
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Yaakov wrote:

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> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> | Anyway, currently I have a strange problem, I cannot rebuild gtk2 on
> | the same machine where I compiled it two days before.  The only thing
> | I changed was to update gcc, i.e. getting an error now when linking
> | gdk-pixbuf because the generated .def file seems to be broken.
> |
> | I'll need to investigate if it works ok with the previous gcc or
> | whatever the reason is.  I think I'll try to build without the .def
> | file as well to see how it works.

> FWIW, I had the same problem building gtkglext, which also uses
> - -Wl,--export-symbols-regex to exclude symbols with a leading underscore.
> ~ Removing this line from the libtool LDFLAGS did the trick.

You may also apply the libtool.m4 patch I recently posted and
reconfigure.

> In the end, it's just a matter of which symbols are exported or not, so
> it really shouldn't hurt, should it?

There may be symbols exported which are also exported by other
libraries (e.g. getopt).


Gerrit
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