Re: Problem with an oct file that won't load

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-2008, John Swensen wrote:

| This is a quote from the Apple developer site:
| "The API is similar to the dyld linkEdit error handler except that all  
| the parameters are passed as pointers to be filled in.
| extern void NSLinkEditError(
| NSLinkEditErrors *c,
| int *errorNumber,
| const char **fileName,
| const char **errorString);
| The last two parameters return pointers to static buffers allocated in  
| the dynamic linker which get reused on subsequent calls to  
| NSLinkEditError. The NSLinkEditErrors enum has been extended to  
| includeNSLinkEditUndefinedError and NSLinkEditMultiplyDefinedError."

OK.

| It did help me solve the problem. The error text was a big long string  
| telling me that I had messed up my fink installation and had messed up  
| version dependencies.  I simply had to rebuild the gtkglarea library  
| and everything went fine.  However, had I not added this patch I  
| wouldn't have know which package was causing the problem.  I have  
| since closed my terminal, but the error said something like:
| 
| The library /sw/lib/libgtk.so.2 (Version x.y.z) requires libgtkgl.so.2  
| (Version a.b.c) but /sw/lib/libgtkgl.so.2 provides version f.g.h

OK.

Thanks,

jwe