gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Yang Guilong said the following on 04-09-29 16:16:

> And I had just noticed another issue of gtk2: It was linked against
> cygwin1.dll's setlocale(), which is taken as problematic. 

Why?

> When I run gaim-1.0.0 with it, some locale features bahave weird, e.g
> the XIM server couldn't be activated.
> But when I turn to the gtk2 from cygnome2, everything work fine. 
> 
> Since gtk2-x11 has something to do with x11, we can turn to XLOCALE. 
> And that's the way cygnome2 does.

I want to see the reason why it doesn't work with setlocale().
Have you debugged this?


Gerrit
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