CVS source compilation error: undefined references in libxfcegui4.so

[Brian J. Tarricone]

looks like your cvs libxfcegui4 is linked against a 4.0.x version of 
libxfce4util.   running both stable and cvs in normal system locations 
is generally a bad idea.

    -brian

C K wrote:

> Hello, I'm new to the devel list, and I have grabbed (what i think is) 
> the most recent version of the CVS sources and get these compile 
> errors with xfce-mcs-manager:
>
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_version_string'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_desktop_entry_get_int'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_utf8_remove_controls'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to `xfce_gethostname'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to `xfce_setenv'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_desktop_entry_get_string'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_expand_variables'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_desktop_entry_get_type'
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to 
> `xfce_desktop_entry_get_file'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [xfce-setting-show] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rzzn/xfce4/xfce-mcs-manager/xfce-setting-show'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rzzn/xfce4/xfce-mcs-manager'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I'm gathering it's probably only a simple matter of header files in 
> the libxfcegui4 package, but I'm not sure.  I exported PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
> and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH, with the latter two pointing to 
> /usr/local/lib in case that was the issue, but to no avail.  I am also 
> using gcc 3.3.3 on a gentoo system.
>
> Hopefully this problem is easy to fix on my end, but I'm unsure how 
> to.  Does anyone know how?
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Fred
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