Re: Trying to install GTK

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 21:21, slbubba wrote:
> Folks;
>
> Trying to install GTK I started with glib-2.2.1.tar.gz first and all 
> went well.  I did have to install pkg-config which I got from the 
> pkg-config web site and that went well also.
>
> When trying to install GTK-2.2.1 I got the message that atk wasn't 
> installed so I proceeded to install that package.  This is where the 
> problem lies.
>
> During the ./configure process for atk-1.2.0.tar.gz I get the following:  
>
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.1, but GLIB (2.0.6)
> *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
> *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
> *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
> *** required on your system.
> *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> *** to point to the correct configuration files
> no
> configure: error:
> *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
> *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
>
> No matter what I do I can't get past this point.  In the beginning it 
> was complaining the the glib found was V1.2 (which was in the /usr/lib 
> dir along with 2.0.so.0.0.6).  After renaming the old glib (couldn't 
> remove it because of dependancies) I started getting the message above.
>
> Anyone know how to juggle things to get around this?
>
> In /usr/lib is:
> libglib-2.0.so.0.0.6 and  libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
>
> In /usr/local/lib is:
> libglib-2.0.la and  libglib-2.0.so.0.200.1

The error message above is supposed to be pretty descriptive :-)

The simplest thing, don't have multiple versions of GLib-2.0 around ...
there isn't a point, and it just invites problems. 

One straightforward (though some would say unclean) way of doing things
is to simply to install over your system's version of GLib, by
configuring with

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

The clean thing to do is to find/make packages of GLib-2.2.1 
that can be used to replace your system's older version.

Or, as the error message says, you can edit /etc/ld.so.conf
and/or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so libraries in /usr/local are 
found before those in /usr.

Regards,
                                            Owen