[Mono-devel-list] Beta1 preview.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Found a snag with gtkhtml-sharp from gtk-sharp-0.91.
> 
> I'm running libgtkhtml-3.0.10, which has:
> 
> peter at gonzo peter $ locate gtkhtml-3.0 | grep so
> /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.0.so
> /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.0.so.4
> /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.0.so.4.0.0
> 
> as the .so files. However the current check for what .so version to use
> only differentiates between libgtkhtml-3.0 (.2 ending) and libgtkhtml.3.1 (.4
> ending) As a result gkthtml-sharp using apps fail because the dll can't
> load the proper stuff. If you run into problems, you need to fix the
> .dll.config in
> /usr/lib/mono/gac/gtkhtml-sharp/1.0.0.0_foo/gkthtml-sharp.dll.config to
> point to the right thing.
> 
> Ultimately the configure.in in gkt-sharp needs to be fixed slightly to
> detect versions a bit better.

Ah, this is a good observation, I ran into this on the MacOS X as well,
but I did not look into the issue like you did.

The problem is that the versions are in fact hardcoded for each version
of GtkHTML.  Do you have any suggestions on how to pick those versions
in an OS independent fashion?

Miguel