Re: [gtk-list] Installation Problems

[Alan Olsen <alan clueserver org>]

On 8 May 2000, Tony wrote:

This is pretty common with Redhat.

GLib 1.2.7 was installed to /usr/local/bin, but Redhat is looking in
/usr/bin.

Try using:

./configure --prefix/usr

when building GLib and GTK+.  That will solve 99% of your RedHat problems.
(Your millage may vary.)

> I have installed GLIB 1.2.7. I then tried installing gtk+-1.2.7 but I
> continue to receive the following error when running ./configure
> 
> checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.7... 
> *** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.7, but GLIB (1.2.6)
> *** was found! If glib-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 glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
> *** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file
> config.cache
> *** before re-running configure
> 
> The "old" version was installed via RPM so I simply removed it and tried
> installing everything all over again including GLIB, but the same
> error... I have no idea what this means:
> 
> by modifying your LD_LIBRARY PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
> /etc/ld.so.conf.
> 
> Edit what? Edit it to say what? This doesn't make any sense to me...
> 
> What am I suppose to do to install this newer version?
> 
> Running RedHat 6.2 Intel
> 
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