People playing with those examples tend to mess up things, so it's really really unhelpful if we don't do error checking.
= Examples = == Building the examples == The examples in this directory are built alongside the rest of GTK+. The examples under the `application[1-10]` directories are also included in the GTK+ API reference documentation, and can be built independently, using the system libraries, by doing: $ cd application1 $ make -f Makefile.example