diff --git a/unix/GNUfiles.mk b/unix/GNUfiles.mk
index 49fdd8d0..83f979aa 100644
--- a/unix/GNUfiles.mk
+++ b/unix/GNUfiles.mk
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ CFLAGS += \
 CXXFLAGS += \
 	`pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0`
 LDFLAGS += \
-	`pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` -lm
+	`pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` -lm -ldl
 
 # flags for building a shared library
 # OS X does support -shared but it has a preferred name for this so let's use that there instead; hence this is not gcc-global
diff --git a/unix/draw.c b/unix/draw.c
index 7396d33f..c5f6f0d0 100644
--- a/unix/draw.c
+++ b/unix/draw.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static void prepareLayout(uiDrawTextLayout *layout, PangoLayout *pl)
 		width = -1;
 	pango_layout_set_width(pl, width);
 
-	pango_layout_set_attribute_list(pl, layout->attrs);
+	pango_layout_set_attributes(pl, layout->attrs);
 }
 
 void uiDrawTextLayoutExtents(uiDrawTextLayout *layout, double *width, double *height)
@@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ static void try138(void)
 	void *handle;
 
 	tried138 = TRUE;
+	// dlsym() walks the dependency chain, so opening the current process should be sufficient
 	handle = dlopen(NULL, RTLD_LAZY);
 	if (handle == NULL)
 		return;
@@ -769,9 +770,7 @@ void uiDrawTextLayoutSetColor(uiDrawTextLayout *layout, intmax_t startChar, intm
 		try138();
 	// TODO what if aa == 0?
 	if (newFGAlphaAttr != NULL) {
-g_printf("adding alpha\n");
 		attr = (*newFGAlphaAttr)(aa);
 		addAttr(layout, attr, startChar, endChar);
 	}
-else g_printf("ignoring alpha\n");
 }