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[DaveS]

Desperately trying to compile webkit but cant get past this error:

[tubby]

Would the latest pet from here help? ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/

[DaveS]

Thanks for taking the time Tubby. No luck though......... seems crazy.

[npierce]

When you looked at the pkg-config man page and then tried

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

Getting nowhere now, so giving up. Heck, I am such a doombrain.............

[npierce]

Okay, so it doesn't look like the linker is looking anywhere special for libglib-2.0. Let's see what we find when we look in some standard places. Try these commands:

[DaveS]

OK, I get this:

[npierce]

Hi Dave,

I guess you sent your earlier post while I was writing my last post, so I didn't notice it. I didn't mean to push you into continuing if you are getting tired of this. I know how frustrating things get after working on them a long while. If you want to stop, feel free to ignore the rest of this post.

But if you want to try one more thing just to see if it helps, read on. . .

The links in /usr/lib look a little unconventional. libglib-2.0.so points to another link named libglib-2.0.so.0.1800.3, which in turn points to libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.2, the actual library.

I'm not sure how the library version is determined when gcc is run, but if it looks at the name of the link in the middle, that might be enough to confuse it into thinking that you have the older version still installed. I suggest changing libglib-2.0.so to point to libglib-2.0.so.0, like so:

[DaveS]

[npierce]

I did some reading and found out that pkg-config doesn't try to find out what version of a library is actually installed. It just looks in a text file (in this case, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc). If the entry for "Version:" in the file doesn't match the actual version installed, pkg-config returns the wrong information.

That file should have been automatically updated when you compiled and installed glib 2.22, but something must have gone wrong.

Since you recently installed glib-2.22.2-p4.pet, the simplest way to fix this is to install ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/glib_DEV-2.22.2-p4.pet, which contains a correct copy of the /usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc text file.

[DaveS]

[npierce]

Yay!

You're welcome. I'm glad we got it fixed!

[DaveS]

[npierce]

No, not at all simple.

And as the years go by, things seem to keep getting less and less simple. The irony is that folks think that they are making things simpler by automating stuff. Well, when it works it is simpler. But when something goes wrong, watch out! Trying to figure out what went wrong with it can be a nightmare.

Of course, things never go wrong!