[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] libgtkmm installation fails

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:04 -0400, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> More details,
> 
> > > Various stuff is happening at the moment with the gtkmm packages,
> > > including two of us uploading packages at once, and us not being sure
> > > which ones were actually used. We'll work it out in the next few days.
> > 
> > Thanks. I want to try new IT2006, but without gtkmm it is useless to me.
> > 
> > I was trying to build libgtkmm-2.4 myself at first by downloading
> > libgtkmm-2.4 (2.4.10-1) sources and applying Debian patch 
> > (gtkmm2.4_2.4.10-1.diff) from
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libgtkmm-2.4-1.
> > 
> > But compilation fails:
> > 
> >  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"pangomm\" -I../../pango
> > -I/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/pango -I../../pango
> > -I/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/pango -I../../atk
> > -I/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/atk -I../../gdk
> > -I/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/gdk -I../../gtk
> > -I/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/gtk -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4
> > -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc
> > ++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -Wall -g -O2 -MT fontset.lo -MD -MP
> > -MF .deps/fontset.Tpo -c fontset.cc  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fontset.o
> > fontset.cc: In function `gboolean
> > <unnamed>::fontset_foreach_callback(PangoFontset*, PangoFont*, void*)':
> > fontset.cc:41: error: `exception_handlers_invoke' is not a member of
> > `Glib'
> > make[5]: *** [fontset.lo] Error 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/vlg/Gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm-2.4.10/pango/pangomm'
> > 
> 
> This error seems to be the result of fontset.cc calling
> Glib::exception_handlers_invoke() which is conditionally compiled by
> libglibmm-2.4 if GLIBMM_EXCEPTIONS_ENABLED is set
> (see /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/exceptionhandler.h).
> 
> Sounds like libglibmm-2.4 I installed with apt-get from maemo repo
> (libglibmm-2.4-1c2a) has been built with exceptions disabled (???).

Yes, and some other options too, for reduced resources environments.

Once everything is working, I will announce it, with details.

-- 
Murray Cumming
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