Re: old version of GLIB

[Stephen Witkop <switkop charter net>]

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 23:41, Vipin Patel wrote:
> Good evening:
> 
> 
>   Am trying to install Gaim 0.59.6. Get the following error:
> 
> checking for glib-config.. /usr/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.5...
> *** An old version of GLIB (1.2.1) was found.
> *** You need a version of GLIB newer then 1.2.5.
> ***
> *** If you have already installed a sufficiently new version, this error
> *** probably means that the wrong copy of the glib-config shell script is
> *** being found.  The easiest way to fix this is to remove the old version
> *** of GLIB, but you can also set the GLIB_CONFIG environment to point to
> *** the correct copy of glib-config.  (In this case, you will have to
> *** modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit ***
> /etc/ld.so.conf so that the correct libraries are found at run-time))
> 
> I have an old computer (PI @ 200 Mhz) running Redhat 5.0.  I have
> installed both glib-1.2.6 and glib-2.0.4 (using ./configure, make, make
> install, etc).  I know that the 1.2.6 install went smoothly but I still
> get the above error.  This computer is my 1st linux box.  How do I get
> past this problem?  I do not know how to remove old version of glib. 
> Don't know how to set my glib_config enviroment.  Don't know...oh, heck! 
> You get the point.  Looking forward to anyone who may be willing to help. 
> Thank you for your time.

You probably have the old copy of a glib rpm still lying around. Redhat
puts glib and gtk in /usr and make install sends things to /usr/local by
default so either rpm -e glib gtk and then do a make install or
configure glib and gtk with the option --prefix=/usr which should
overwrite the existing copy. 

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Stephen Witkop <switkop charter net>