Re: GTk/Glib 2.2 Install Problem

[ramprasad <ramprasad ncoretech com>]

Hi,
   Set the path of glib2.0.pc file

Hope this helps,
Thanks
Ramprasad
jason healy wrote:

> I'm a bit new to Linux, and am having a problem installing GTK+2.2 
> (have tried the latest 2.4 several times which has resulted in a OS 
> reinstall ).
>
> I have downloaded the following source packages:
>     gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz
>   glib-2.2.3.tar.gz
>   atk-1.2.4.tar.gz
>   pkgconfig-0.14.0.tar.gz
>
>
> I first built pkg-config with no problems. I then built glib as 
> directed (./configure, make and make install) and set the environment 
> variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
>
> I can then execute pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 and get the output
>
>   -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include  
> -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0
>
> I then try and install atk but this fails at the configure stage. It 
> reports
>
>   checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
>   *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3, but GLIB (2.0.6)
>   *** 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
>
> It would seem that the test application in the configure script is 
> linking against the wrong version of GLIB.
>
> I built and ran the following test program (cut down version of whats 
> in configure)
>
>   #include <glib.h>
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   #include <stdlib.h>
>
>   int
>   main ()
>   {
>           printf("%d.%d.%d\n", glib_major_version, glib_minor_version,
>   glib_micro_version);
>     return 1;
>   }
>
> and used ldd with the following output
>
>   ldd test1
>           libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40021000)
>           libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4008c000)
>           libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4013e000)
>           libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4015f000)
>           libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40167000)
>           /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> which is the old library (I checked the file date and time). WHy is it 
> linking against the old library in /usr/lib rather than /usr/local/lib 
> ? How do I remove the old version of the library ? I tried removing 
> them temporarliy, the source compiled and linked but failed to run 
> correctly as it couldn't find the library.
> Does this mean that the program always built against the right 
> libraries but loaded the wrong ones at execution - am I misising an 
> environment variable for searching for libraries?
>
> Have also tried running ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib and have alseo 
> tried editing /etc/ld.so.conf with no difference?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
> jason healy optusnet com au
>
>
>
>
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