Re: problems with glibc -- please help

[Gal Aviel <galaviel bezeqint net il>]

Hi,

First, disclaimer - I'm new to the Gtk worlds as well, be warned ...

I believe you have a small mixup. I just recently installed Gtk 2.2.2
from source
into a custom directory in my system, so that I could hack and
experiment on it,
therefor I think I know what's wrong.

If you want to install Gtk from source, you basically need the Gtk
tarball and 
3 more tarballs.  According to   http://www.gtk.org/download/
"Installation Guide" link 
(the below is just for general idea):

(start quote)

Three of the libraries that GTK+ depends on are maintained by by the GTK+ team: GLib, Pango, and ATK. Other libraries are maintained separately.

• The GLib library provides core non-graphical functionality such as high level data types, Unicode manipulation, and an object and type system to C programs. It is available from the GTK+ FTP site.

• Pango is a library for internationalized text handling. It is available from the GTK+ FTP site.. Either Pango-1.0 or Pango-1.2 can be used with GTK+-2.2, though Pango-1.2 is recommended.

• ATK is the Accessibility Toolkit. It provides a set of generic interfaces allowing accessibility technologies such as screen readers to interact with a graphical user interface. It is available from the GTK+ FTP site.

(end quote) 


I believe you installed *glibc* which to my best knowledge has nothing
to do with *glib* which Gtk requires.
Glibc is (to my best knowledge) the GNU Standart C library where
functions like printf() are defined. 

To make a long story short, there exists some dependancies among the 4
mentioned packages, I believe they
have to be installed by order, and I think glib should go first. Try
installing glib first and only then installing atk.

Please tell me if this helps (or I'll recall deeper what I did),

Gal.


Joelle Nakhle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded glibc 2.2.2, pango 1.2.3 and atk 1.2.4 in order to install gtk.  I
> installed glibc and it seemes to have installed properly.  But when i try to
> install pango or atk it tells me:
>
>
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.3... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
> configure: error:
> *** Glib 2.1.3 or better is required. The latest version of
> *** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
>
>
>
> Waht is GLIB test program?  I went into my glib directory and then in the test
> directory.  I tried running ./testglib, which i thought was what they were
> talking about before and this is what i get:
>
>
> ** (process:9292): WARNING **: harmless warning with parameters: 42 Boo 0x3039
> ** Message: the next warning is a test:
>
> (process:9292): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gmessages.c: line 840 (g_print):
> assertion `format != NULL' failed
> checking endian macros (host is little endian)...ok
> checking file functions...
> g_file_open_tmp correctly returns error: Template 'zap/barXXXXXX' invalid,
> should not contain a '/'
> g_file_open_tmp for template 'zapXXXXXX' used name '/tmp/zapAHZwJ2'
> g_file_open_tmp for NULL template used name '/tmp/.CTE945'
>
>
>
> What can i do to resolve the problem and finally get gtk to work?  
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Joelle
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