Re: [gdome] Compiling GDOME on Mac OS X Leopard

[Daniel Macks <dmacks netspace org>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:36:54PM +0530, JanakiRam wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to compile GDOME on Mac OS X Leopard. Downloaded the sources from
> http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/tarball/gdome2-0.8.1.tar.gz.
> 
> I'm able to compile the sources successfully on Tiger - i've used fink to
> install pkginfo,libidl & glib - dependencies for GDOME.
> 
> As i'm trying to compile the same GDOME Sources on Leopard using
> ./configure,make (same approach).
> 
> In the middle of ./configure execution an error related to GLib is thrown
> with the following message.
> 
> 
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> *** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
> *** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
> *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
> *** is required on your system
> ***
> *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
> *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> configure: error: Could not find GLIB (see config.log for details).
> 
> But  i've installed GLib using Fink and also confirmed the same with the
> following command.
> 
> --------------------------
> $ fink info glib
> --------------------------

You want fink's glib2-dev ("glib" is old, long-dead glib-1.x series).
OTOH, why not just use fink's gdome?

dan

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