Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] gdk-pixbuf error in librsvg

[Mark Brand]

> I'm getting the following error with librsvg on Ubuntu:
>
> checking whether to build the GDK-Pixbuf SVG loader... yes
> checking for GDK_PIXBUF... yes
> checking for gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders... none
> configure: error: gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders not found in path
>
> Looking through the gdk-pixbuf log, there's lots of these warnings:
>
> libtool: link: Could not determine host path corresponding to
> libtool: link:   `/home/tonytheodore/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin'
> libtool: link: Continuing, but uninstalled executables may not work.
>
> The --disable-pixbuf-loader option fixes it, but it's been explicitly
> enabled so I'm not sure if that's the best thing. Maybe we need a
> native build step in gdk-pixbuf?

Hmm. I didn't see that error, obviously because I have a native 
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders:

checking whether to build the GDK-Pixbuf SVG loader... yes
checking for GDK_PIXBUF... yes
checking for gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders... /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders

The documentation [1] says that this utility "..collects information 
about loadable modules for gdk-pixbuf and writes it to the default cache 
file location..".  I wonder if these modules are some kind of shared 
library like plugins in Qt. In that case, maybe this utility isn't 
really relevant to our static situation. This suggests that 
--disable-pixbuf-loader (which is the default) is the right choice, but 
my understanding of this is meager.

I also wonder about what happens to these "modules" in our static build.

Does anybody know about the option "--disable-modules       disable 
dynamic module loading" in gdk-pixbuf and gtk?

[1] 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.html

Mark