Installing DevHelp
 

Can anyone help me with this error?
I've been trying to install devhelp for Anjuta. I cd'd to the source directory
and typed in ./configure. Lots of messages get printed to the screen then I get
this error:

Checking for pkg-config.
Could not run GLIB program.
GLIB may not be correctly installed.
Package gtk+-2.0 not found.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

First, my PKG_CONFIG_PATH was empty. I don't have any file called
'gtk+-2.0.pc', but I do have one called 'gtk+.pc' in 'usr/lib/pkgconfig/'. I set
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="usr/lib/pkgconfig" and renamed 'gtk+.pc' to 'gtk+-2.0.pc', but
it still gave the same error. I checked to see if I had the gtk+ package and
found that "The package 'gtk+2.-2.0.6-8mdk' is installed".

How can I get past this error?

look at your config.log and check for the bit where it trys to run the glib program. It looks like it gets past pkg-config and trys to compile & run a glib program which doesn't work for whatever reason.

CONFIG.LOG extract
 

I think this is the relevent part of config.log.
There is a check for 'GLIB - version >= 2.0.0' with 'result: no'. So I checked my packages and found I had 'glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk'. Does that mean that my glib version is 2.2.5? If so, then why did I get a fail result? Am I short of a path to the glib library? Any other comments? I'm not too sure how to use this config.log info.

configure:7672: checking for pkg-config
configure:7690: found /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
configure:7703: result: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
configure:7726: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0
configure:7876: result: no
configure:7910: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
configure:7912:18: glib.h: No such file or directory
configure: In function `main':
configure:7918: `glib_major_version' undeclared (first use in this function)
configure:7918: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
configure:7918: for each function it appears in.)
configure:7918: `glib_minor_version' undeclared (first use in this function)
configure:7918: `glib_micro_version' undeclared (first use in this function)
configure:7913: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| #line 7890 "configure"
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE "devhelp"
| #define VERSION "0.5.0"
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| #include <glib.h>
| #include <stdio.h>
|
| int
| main ()
| {
| return ((glib_major_version) || (glib_minor_version) || (glib_micro_version));
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:8027: checking for
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0
configure:8072: error: Library requirements (
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

"glib" is different from "glibc"

look for glib-devel

>>"glib" is different from "glibc"
Is that why it's not working?

The 'glib' packages I have installed are;
glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
glibc-i18ndata-2.2.5-16mdk
libglib1.2-devel-1.2.10-16mdk

The packages I can install are;
glib-gettextize-2.0.6-2mdk
glibc-doc-2.2.5-16mdk
glibc-doc-pdf-2.2.5-16mdk
glibc-static-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
glibc-utils-2.2.5-16mdk
libglib2.0_0-devel-2.0.6-2mdk
libglibwww1-0.2-3mdk
libglibwww1-devel-0.2-3mdk

I don't have any glib-devel packages though. What do I install?

Ive just downloaded 'glib-1.2.10-8.src.rpm'. Should I install that? What switches/options should I use?

it's checking for...
configure:7726: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0

so install these 2...

glib-gettextize-2.0.6-2mdk
libglib2.0_0-devel-2.0.6-2mdk

I installed them both. libglib2.0***** needed 'pkgconfig-0.12.0-2mdk' as a dependency and had to be installed first. However, after installing the packages, plus dependency, I ran ./configure again, but I got the exact same error messages at the exact same point!
Should I install something else? I don't need to reboot do I?

if in your config.log, if you see that it can't find glib.h again, search for glib.h, rpm -q -l libglib2.0-devel
./configure --help may give you some options to tell it where to look for glib include files and set it to where you found the glib.h or there may even be a --disable-glib-test option.

basically you got to be able to compile a simple glib program to get rid of the message.

Sorry, I missed off a bit in my earlier post - glib compiled, thanks - I simply didn't notice it - but I was still getting gtk+ error messages. Here is the same part of config.log.

configure:7672: checking for pkg-config
configure:7690: found /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure:7703: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure:7726: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0
configure:7846: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-
2.0/include conftest.c -lglib-2.0 >&5
configure:7849: $? = 0
configure:7851: ./conftest
configure:7854: $? = 0
configure:7872: result: yes (version 2.0.6)
configure:8027: checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0
configure:8072: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

Now the configure script is lookling for a file called gtk+-2.0.pc (see my first post). But I don't have that file. I have gtk+.pc only. I renamed gtk+.pc to gtk+-2.0.pc and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to it, but still the same error (can't find gtk+-2.0 package) came up.

look for a package similar to... gtk+2-devel.-2.0.6-8mdk

don't rename gtk+.pc, that's the pkgconfig for gtk1 I think.