Re: fedora is out to get me

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:57:49PM -0400, jessopb adelphia net wrote:
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7...
> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.6.4, but GLIB (2.4.8)
> *** 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 2.5.7 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.
> 
> I've installed and reinstalled glib and pkg-config and other things the installation guide mentions.
> 
> Why is fedora's gtk called gtk-2.0 instead of gtk+-2.0?

No, it isn't.

FC3:
$ pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
2.4.14

You just haven't set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to list your new GLib
installation lib/pkgconfig directory.

This is probably the most frequently asked question ever,
search the archives if you need more details.

> atk keeps stalling on configure.  this was the last error I got.  How do I remove the old glib?

There are rpm packages of 2.6 available in FC4 test.  Take the
src.rpm's, rebuild them and upgrade rpms.  That's the clean
way.

Yeti


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