is wrong with libtool. this worked just fine and then I updated my powerpc
box to more recent -current and I was able to reproduce the problem
as reported to me by a handful of people.
the following: a basic data structure to provide reference-counted images,
functions to load images synchronously from disk or progressively from
arbitrary data buffers, and convenience functions to transform pixbufs
and render them to drawables.
From: Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>