Re: [GENERAL] Building pgadmin on Fedora core 2

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Joe Conway wrote:

| Scot L. Harris wrote:
|
|> Running Fedora Core 2 trying to build pgadmin3 from source.
|>
|> Build wxWindows from sources.  Appeared to build and install no problem.
|>
|> But when building pgadmin get the following error as it tries to build
|> pgadmin3.
|>
|> /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2ud_core-2.5.a(corelib_settings.o)(.text+0xa55):
|> In function `wxSystemSettingsNative::GetFont(wxSystemFont)':
|> src/gtk/settings.cpp:346: undefined reference to
|> `_gtk_rc_context_get_default_font_name'
|> /usr/local/lib/libwx_gtk2ud_core-2.5.a(corelib_menu.o)(.text+0xc5c): In
|> function `wxMenubarUnsetInvokingWindow':
|> src/gtk/menu.cpp:275: undefined reference to `_gtk_accel_group_detach'
|
|
| After lots of googling I found reference to the fact that wxWindows uses
| gtk functions that are supposed to be internal use only (i.e. all the
| _gtk* functions). The version of gtk that ships with fc2 no longer
| exports these symbols. My solution was to patch gtk to re-allow export
| of the internal symbols -- see attached patch.
|
| I could not get gtk+-2.4.0 to build on my system starting from the
| (supposedly) fc2 src rpm. So I ended up building a gtk+-2.4.1 rpm using
| the patched source as mentioned above. From there, all was well with
| pgadmin3.

Would it be better for us to put a patch into our wxWindows tree for
this, rather than patching gtk?  Do we really want to maintain a gtk
patch as well?  Also, I've built pgAdmin3 on a fresh FC2 without having
to patch anything, which means that there are probably changes in the
wxWindows tree to fix this.  Perhaps we can backport them?

ahp
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