Re: Problem compiling gtk+-1.2.6

[Glitch <brandon ovnet com>]

dean holloway wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having loads of problems trying to compile gtk+1.2.6 on a Solaris 8
> platform. I've already installed glib 1.2.6 which appeared to install
> properly. When i try to 'configure' gtk+1.2.6 i get the following
> errors:-
>
> checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.4... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> *** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
> *** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to
> point
> *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
> that
> *** is required on your system
> ***

as you can see it's looking for glib-config in /usr/local/bin

Most likely however the new glib-config wasn't put in /usr/local/bin

What you need to do is:

Step 1--find the other location of glib-config (the new one just 
installed) and move it to /usr/local/bin.  What I did was to rename the 
old glib-config to glib-config-1.2.6 or whatever your old version is, 
and then move the new glib-config to teh same directory and name it 
using the same scheme. Then create a symlink called just glib-config and 
point it to the new glib-config.

Step 2--Also, with the new libs installed you will need to run 
/sbin/ldconfig as it says above in the error messages.

After the above 2 steps are done the ./configure step will work fine. I 
did the above steps on my laptop and on this desktop with no problem.

A hint of advice. If you plan to install a new version of gtk as well, 
you will need to do the same thing with gtk-config and ldconfig.