Re: What goes wrong with glib?

[Daniel <daniel netbreeze com au>]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:24, Daniel wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:24, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
> > "Mike Newman", "Carsten Weinberg", "Kent Eschenberg"
> > and "Telsa Gwynne" are participated in this reply (see
> > below)...
> > 
> > No, I didn't mean "glibc", I meant "glib" when I said:
> > "is required by about 100 other packages".
> > Also, I am not installing a beta version of gnome; I
> > want to install gnome 2.6.
> > Nevertheless, I removed the old glib rpm (with
> > --nodeps option), and installed "glib-2.4.2.tar.bz2"
> > again, but, still this error appears when trying to
> > install "pango-1.4.0.tar.bz2":
> 
> Just thought I'd reply.. hope this helps:
> 
> Make sure you install glib's .pc file in a location that will be seen by
> pkg-config. /usr/lib/pkgconfig is where the .pc files should go by
> default.. if you are installing glib in a location other than /lib then
> you may need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH when compiling programs that
> are dependent on glib.

Sorry.. I meant .. if you install glib in a prefix other than /usr then
you may need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH

> eg.. If you use 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt
> 
> for glib then when you compile pango you will need to do:
> 
> export PGK_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/lib/pkgconfig
> ./configure --prefix=/opt
> 
> Make sure you install all the gnome packages into the same prefix.. Hope
> this helps..
> 
> Daniel
> 
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