I'm trying to build the nightly tarball of Gaim. I ran ./configure, and it tells me I need to get glib 2.0 or greater. No problem, i downloaded and built that. However, when i run gaim ./configure again, it still tells me I need glib >= 2.0. I looked at the log for configure and the error, as far as I can tell, is it can't find a header called glib.h. I have that on my system, but it's in a folder called gilb-1.2 or some such so I'm not sure it'll work. So does anyone know where I can find glib.h for glib >= 2.0? All I can find are RPM's and seeing as I'm on Slackware, they don't really do me any good.

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Didn't work, same error as before...

What does
locate glib-2.0.pc
give you as a result (in case you do updatedb
on a regular basis ;})?

After installing glib2, did you run ldconfig?

I had no problems with installing glib2 from
source (well, except for having to get & install
a million other, new versions of stuff it depends
on ;}).

Cheers,
Tink

Ok, I fixed it, partly. I looked at config.log and saw that gcc wasn't looking in the right directory. Well, I set my CPPFLAGS to point to it and the test program compiles. Now, however, I get this error:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
*** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
configure: error:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

I've run ldconfig and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but that isn't working. Any ideas?

It's a wild guess, but what happens if you swap
/usr/lib /usr/local/lib in your ld.so.conf, which
one comes first as of now?

Cheers,
Tink

Actually, /usr/lib isn't in there. I added it to try and fix the first problem I had, but it didn't help so I took it out. I'm pretty sure it doesn't make a difference for this part of the problem, since glib-2.0 is all in /usr/local/lib anyway, /usr/lib is all the 1.x stuff that came with Slackware

Well, I rebooted and came back later, and I get this:
When I look in the error log, there is this line:This should point to libglib-2.0.so, right? I have that in /usr/local/lib, which is in the list of paths gcc is supposed to be looking for when it links. The compile command is:Why is it not finding the library?

Make sure the library is actually there? It sounds like it should find it.

Ok, from more trial and error and looking at config.log, I think it's telling me that the glib version in the headers is undefined. This is the error:
If I change these (in gutils.h) to reflect the correct version, it gives me an error saying the variables are both extern and initialized.

I'm stumped. I don't know why that is happening, i've never seen this problem before.