Re: glib install problems

[Anthony DiSante <orders nodivisions com>]

M Hoskison wrote:
> Now when I compile another package that has glib-2.4.0 as a dependency,
> I get the following error during ./configure (in this case of
> atk-1.6.0):
>
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.4.0, but GLIB (2.2.1)
> *** was found! If pkg-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 pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> *** to point to the correct configuration files
> no
> configure: error:
> *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
> *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is
> installed
> *** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the
> file
> *** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
>
> > From what I can see, glib-2.4 hasn't installed itself in /usr/lib or
> /usr/local/lib/. I'm at a loss as how to please pkg-config.

As if the whole gtk/glib nightmare weren't confusing enough, glib-2.2 and 
glib-2.4 etc install themselves in directories named glib-2.0.  That could 
be your problem.

I'm going through the same upgrades (for gimp 2) that you are now.  I 
apparently had glib-2.2.3 installed at /usr/lib/, and when I installed 2.4 
it went to /usr/local/lib/.  So I deleted these (glib-2.3) files:

/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.200.3
/usr/lib/glib-2.0/

That made the error message go away.  Of course, now none of my programs 
will start (rox (file manager), gftp, thunderbird, etc), and gtk+-2.4.0's 
make is dying with some obscure error, so my entire system is borked.

-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/