Re: Glib.so not loading in CentOS-5.3 perl 5.8.8

[Ed Leaver <ewleaver comcast net>]

Thanks for such a prompt reply. I get my perl-Gtk2, perl-Glib, and friends from rpmforge. Apparently they got ahead of the Glib version on CentOS5, which is Glib2-1.12.3. I could not make perl-Pango-1.220 because it complains

$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local
Pre-requisites not found:
Glib version 1.220 required--this is only version 1.200 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 121.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 9) line 1.

Please install them manually.


Oddly, perl-Glib-1.222 made, tested, and installed just fine from source.

My solution was to "yum erase perl-Gtk2 perl-Glib", edit yum.conf 
"installonlypkgs = perl perl-Glib perl-Gtk2"

I then downloaded perl-Glib-1.200 and perI-Gtk2-1.183 rpms from rpmforge and "yum install" them both. 
Zim works again, so I'm happy at least for now.

Thanks again for your help!
Ed Leaver

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On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:37 -0700, Brian Manning wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ed Leaver<ewleaver comcast net> wrote:
> > I use Zim, a gtk2-perl desktop wiki app I installed and ran fine under
> > CentOS-5.2 perl 5.8.6. After update to CentOS-5.3 perl 5.8.8
> > I no longer find Glib.so:
>
> [snippage]
>
> > $ perl Glib.pm
> > Name "Glib::Object::Property::ReadWrite::FETCH" used only once: possible
> > typo at Glib.pm line 135.
> > Name "Glib::Object::Property::ReadWrite::STORE" used only once: possible
> > typo at Glib.pm line 136.
> > Glib object version 1.200 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.222 at
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 253.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> When you compile Gtk2/Glib, shared library objects get created,
> they're basically the 'glue' between GTK and Perl.  Your shared
> library objects are different versions from the versions your Perl
> modules require, hence the above error.
>
> I'm not sure how you installed Gtk2/Glib and friends, if you compiled
> them yourself or are using the vendor or someone else's YUM repo.  If
> you compiled them yourself or used an external repo, you may want to
> try recompiling everything yourself and see if that fixes the
> mismatches.  Recompiling would probably fix the problems with missing
> symbols in the Glib.so/Gtk2.so libraries as well.  Using the CPAN
> shell makes updating the Gtk2 stack (aka recompiling) a breeze.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian