Peculiar configure behavior

[edscott]

El vie, 06-08-2004 a las 03:24, Randy Chung escribió:
> Reading this email a bit more carefully, I noticed you mention 
> libxfcegui being semi-broken; but actually, on my system, it links 
> against the proper version without any problems.  The problem isn't with 
> libxfcegui, but with the other packages.

Not with libxfcegui4, but with xfce4-modules which is in the
libxfcegui4, but do not get added to the library. The modules just float
by themselves and are loaded/unloaded as gmodules. Both xfrun4 and xffm
use the gmodules which in turn use libxfce4util.  Since the modules are
not linked statically, you cannot tell them to link up with a specific
version of libxfce4util (or any other library). When you load one of the
gmodules the libraries it relies on are loaded via the /etc/ld.conf
path. 

Before loading the module, neither xffm nor xfrun4 have required use of
libxfce4util, therefore it is not loaded. The first call for
libxfce4util lies in the module, but link information does not exist
here, being just an object file.

That's my current theory. If I am right, the only solution is to install
a new version of libxfce4util. If I am wrong, I will be glad to see how
to make the modules work with a library not in the /etc/ld.conf path.

As to xfcalendar, the reason is probably different.

regards,

Edscott

> 
> I also forgot to note that xfrun4 was broken (it didn't show up when I 
> did an ls because I had already fixed it by then).  This would, based on 
> your info, bring the count to broken packages to:
> 
> xfcalendar
> xffm
> xfce-utils/xfrun4
> It seems kind of bizarre that only xfrun4 of the xfce-utils package is 
> broken; xftaskbar4, for example, links properly.
> 
> I'll look more into this later, though hopefully someone with more 
> configure experience will pipe up.
> 
> --
> 
> Randy
> 
> edscott wrote:
> > 
> > The problem with linking libxfce4util appeared when xfce4-modules was
> > moved to libxfcegui4. Before that, xffm would link correctly with the
> > alternate libxfce4util. But now, when libxfcegui4 compiles, it checks
> > and finds the alternate libxfce4util, but when it links it finds the old
> > libxfce4util. I'm quite confused with this and don't know what causes
> > it. I just overwrote the old libxfce4util with the new and moved on.
> > Maybe someone else on the list know?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
>