Bug#492200: libgtk2.0-0: libgtk upgrade broke vmware

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.07.08 17:17:57, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 16:57 +0200, Andreas Pakulat a écrit :
> > Depending on how many of the non-gtk/glib libs I move back. From here
> > this looks as if the changes that were done to linking gtk/glib (I'm
> > guessing this was to reduce the excess linkage?) broke binary
> > compatibility of the libraries.
> 
> No, if anything is broken, it is your vmware installation. The problem
> is that vmware tries to load the system gtk+ with a private glib. This
> way it doesn’t respect the system gtk+’s requirements wrt. glib. If it
> really needs to work with private libraries (which is broken to say the
> least, think security updates for example), vmware needs to hold both
> glib and gtk+ in its private directory.

Hmm, looking through vmware's script to setup the library path it seems
it already has its own gtk+ libs. Ah, now I remember. The problem is
that apparently the gtk libs provided with vmware, don't work with
Debian's X11 libs (assertion in xcb_lock.c). So I just tried to replace
them with debians system gtk, which worked thus far.

So I'm sorry for the disturbance.

Andreas

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