Re: [gtk-list] Re: Pollin

[Nicholas Ewing Seafort <seafort yo fuh-q org>]

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Brandon Long wrote:

> On 01/06/99 Nicholas Ewing Seafort uttered the following other thing:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Daniel J . Wolf wrote:
> > 
> > > Nicholas,
> > >  
> > > I had that same problem, and I fought way too long with it.  I went
> > > searching and I found that glibconfig.h is the file that should define
> > > the various GLIB_SYSDEF* stuff.  In my case it seemed that the glib
> > > install (cvs as of 1/6 at 5:00 p.m) wasn't copying glibconfig.h into 
> > > the appropriate include directory.  In my case this was
> > > /usr/local/include/glibconfig.h.  The fix:  I simply copied the file
> > > from the base directory of the glib source (/usr/local/glib) and I was
> > > golden. I thought for a while that it was just me and my system.  But
> > > perhaps someone should look into whether glib installs glibconfig.h
> > > correctly. For reference I have never had a problem in the three
> > > months i have been compiling gnome cvs. I deleted, got, compiled, and
> > > installed glib several times. I dunno, i'll look into it.
> > > 
> > > dan wolf
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > *SUCCESS!*
> > 
> > Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.
> > 
> > 
> > You've just relieved me of 3 weeks worth of kicking and swearing at
> > various things that refused to build.  This, I think counts as some kind
> > of bug or makefile misconfiguration (uh...guys?  this would be a glib/gtk+
> > thing...).   
> 
> You wouldn't happened to have installed glib in some other places than
> normal, and then pointed at it?  I noticed that when compiling GTK+, if
> you specify a directory for glib, it can't work.  It assumes that
> --with-glib points to the source directory for glib, and so all of the
> files it wants (glib-config, and the include files) are in that
> directory.
> 
Fraid not.  I did a total rebuild about 3 months ago and everything is
going into /usr/local.  all my autogen, etc...scripts are ./autogen.sh
--with-included-gettext.  it finds glib etc. all in /usr/local/* where it
should be...EXCEPT for glibconfig.h.