On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:04:26 -0500, aaron-XW8b5UTxoeLYtjvyW6yDsg wrote:
Excellent tutorial, thank you. I'm almost not confused anymore. So what this all means is that the gtkmm-dev package in Ubuntu doesn't include the *.a files. I guess I need to build that myself then (using apbuild?).
That's crap :( I checked with some guys in #ubuntu and they say the older gtkmm packages *did* ship the .a files, but libgtkmm-2.4-dev doesn't! Weird or what. Especially as the Debian library packaging guide says to ship them.
Yeah, for now I guess compiling GTKmm from the source will do the trick. I'll dig a bit and see if I can find out why Ubuntu is being messed up here.
That being the case I won't have this package up in the next few hours for you to test. What else do you do when you test the package?
Normally I install it onto my system and try it out (after making sure it's "clean", ie no source/cvs compiles of anything lying around). Then I get other people to test it on IRC - but really what you're doing here with asking people to test it is good.
It's also worth running "objdump -x $1 |grep NEEDED" on the final binaries to make sure the dependencies look like what you'd expect.
thanks -mike