Re: Trying to configure/compile glib-2.0.6

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Paul Thomas <paul cuenet com> writes:

> I'm just able to get back to this.
> 
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Paul Thomas <paul cuenet com> writes:
> > 
> > > I got through my other hoops but while tyring to ./configure
> > > on my Linux box (older install), the configure script gets
> > > to this point then quits:
> > > 
> > > checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
> > > checking for alloca... (cached) yes
> > > checking for atexit... yes
> > > checking for on_exit... yes
> > > checking for char... yes
> > > checking size of char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char), 77
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Anyone know what I might need to address to 'compute sizeof (char)'?
> > 
> > Look at config.log - you'll have some sort of compiler error
> > in there related to this.
> > 
[...]

> I don't know why:
> 
> configure:12527: ./conftest
> ./conftest: can't load library 'libiconv.so.2'
> 
> is happening as 'libiconv.so.2' is right here:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
> 
> freshly installed from:
> 
> /var/local/src/libiconv-1.8/
> 
> Any comments appreciated.

Two possibilities:

 1) /usr/local/lib isn't in /etc/ld.so.conf
 2) You haven't run ldconfig

Regards,
                                        Owen