Re: Problem with gkrellfire plugin

On 4/12/19 7:40 AM, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> On 12/04/2019 11:15, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 April 2019 02:07:14 BST you wrote:
>>
>>> ... I solved my problem (and Peter's, who started this thread) by 
>>> noting
>>> that the Makefile didn't actually include gkrellfire.o when linking
>>> gkrellfire.so.
>>
>> Sorry Jack, but I don't see how you solved my problem. I still can't 
>> compile
>> my gkrellfire plugin. I should say that my programming days are at 
>> least 30
>> years in the past, and then it was using the Ferranti Astral assembly
>> language, not C, so if I'm to poke around in the code I'll need my hand
>> holding.
>
> I can take a look at the last released version of gkrellfire and see 
> if I can reproduce this on other distros. It may also be an unwanted 
> side-effect of a patch of the Gentoo ebuild.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan

I hate to do this, but I have to retract my retraction.  The original 
Makefile is actually missing gkrellfire.o on the recipe for 
gkrellfire.so.  The Gentoo patch does rewrite much of Makefile, but that 
bit was already missing.  I suppose the patch could be patched to add 
that missing piece, but the real fix does need to be in the released 
version.  I'd love to know why it works in any other distro, unless they 
found and fixed the problem before releasing the package.

Jack