I just can't understand this. I'm the maintainer of libgtk, the GIMP toolkit, which is the widget set for The GIMP and Gnome and other nice X programs.
Ever since gtk+971109, however, I've been running into a problem that nobody who isn't running Debian has been running into. libgtk *compiles* fine, but when I run a program that uses it, the fields where you enter text into only display bizarre characters -- which change from version to version. For instance, when trying to get gtk+971201 to work, I only got blank characters when typing. When trying gtk+971208, I only got capital Os with umlauts. When trying the latest gtk+, 0.99.0, I only get capital As with umlauts. I tried the latest version from their CVS repositories and only get lower-case 'x's. Other Debian folks have run into this when compiling libgtk, and this has happened to me now on *three* separate Debian-running computers, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. I'm 100 percent up-to-date with hamm. I've tried libc 2.0.5c. I've tried 2.0.6pre3. I've tried 2.0.6pre4. I've tried re-working my debian/rules (which worked fine with gtk+971109) to use the make install provided in the gtk+ Makefile along with debhelper instead of my semi-kluged bash-package-style moving files into separate debian/tmp-blah directories. Is it just me? Can anyone else try compiling with the .dsc/.diff.gz/.orig.tar.gz at http://everybody.got.net/~che/gtk/ for me, and see if I'm just nuts? I've been struggling with this for *weeks* now. Here's some related version numbers of packages, if it matters: ii gcc 2.7.2.3-3 The GNU C compiler. ii ldso 1.9.6-2 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit ii libc6 2.0.5c-0.1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dev 2.0.5c-0.1 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii xlib6g 3.3.1-2 Shared libraries required by X clients ii xlib6g-dev 3.3.1-2 Include files and libraries for X client dev -- Brought to you by the letters X and R and the number 6. "Someday, we will be." "For it has already begun." -- Akira Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .