Re: Trying to install GTK

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:58, Warren Sypteras wrote:
> See bottom:
>
>
> On 10 Mar 2003 09:03:06 -0500
>   Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I tried editing /etc/ld.so.conf 
> putting /usr/local/ first, then ran ldconfig but it 
> appears to ignore the order.  The ldconfig -v still lists 
> /usr/lib
> before /usr/local/lib.
>
> I tried doing an rpm -e on the older installed glib but it
> won't remove due to several other packages depending on 
> it.  Frankly, I'm afraid to force the removal and install 
> the newer libs in it's place since this tends to cause 
> problems with other packages that want the current glib 
> version.
>
> So what would you suggest I do to force atk to use 
> /usr/local/lib?  

For ld.so.conf ordering, a quick search turned up:

 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-08/msg00296.html

You can:

 a) set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 b) Install glib/../gtk+ over your system packages
    using ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
 c) Install glib/../gtk+ 2.2.1 binary packages
    that replace the system packages.

Regards,
                                  Owen