Re: CVS is BROKEN. Ouch!

[Eric Nielson <enielson netcom ca>]

> On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:00:02AM -0600, Michael Harnois wrote:
> > sml13@cornell.edu writes:
> > > configure: error: 
> > > *** GLIB 1.1.5 or better is required. The latest version of GLIB
> > > *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org.
> > 
> > Yeah, this was bizarre. I found that, no matter how many times I ran
> > cvs update (OR checkout, Raja, I tried them both) there was a group of 
> > about 7 files that each time said it was being updated, and then the
> 
> I get these errors too.  When I do make install in glib, it does not
> copy the header files (glib.h, glibconfig.h). When I copy the files
> manually to $prefix/include, everything works ok.
> 
> I already got accustomed to copying glib.h to its place everytime it
> changes. But since nobody complained about it, I thought the 
> error was somehow specific to my setup.


  I'm pretty sure this is because the glib version changed to 1.1.5, which
means the filenames of the glib libraries changed. Delete your previous
version's .so's and header files and make install glib 1.1.5 and run
ldconfig.
  Least that's what worked for me.

Eric Nielson.