[Gambas-user] gb3: unable to compile on Debian Wheezy (testing)

[Benoît Minisini]

> In the interest of getting work done and facing the future of desktop
> environments, I came to a painful decision and have switched to Kubuntu
> 11.10. I decided that Debian Wheezy was insufficiently maintained for
> stability and that GNOME had become a tragic dead end with the
> abandonment of the 2.x branch and the pure crap that is the 3.x branch.
> That left me with KDE and Xfce as my only options, and loving
> customization and beauty I chose KDE.
> 
> Hopefully the Debian or Mint team will get this mess sorted out so gb3
> can compile without hacks. Thanks for the help anyway, and for anyone
> else who sees GNOME as the walking dead, I highly recommend Kubuntu or
> any other well-supported KDE distribution. I should have done this a
> long time ago.

Do what is better for you. 

I just find your conclusions too fast. AFAIK, Debian Wheezy is not released 
yet, so you may have bugs in it.

As for the other comments about where should go the libraries : if our system 
must be able to run executables with different architectures, the libraries 
must be put in different places.

On Ubuntu, I notice that we have lib32 for 32-bits libraries, and lib64 for 
64-bits libraries. 'lib' is just a symbolic link to 'lib64', as I have a 64 
bits system.

I don't know why libfreetype is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. But as soon as 
all *.la files provided by development packages points at it when needed, 
everything will work.

Your problem on Debian Wheezy may just be a ill-formed libSDL_ttf.la file, 
that's all.

Anyway, we will soon have a third architecture on x86 systems, x86_32, so 
things will become more funny. :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini