Hi all,

having a huge problem trying to install XMMS on fedora core 3.
Basically when i go to ./configure i get told that i don't have glib-2.1.1.

With this i went and downloaded glib 2.3.1 and did ./configure then install then make and it all seemed fine.

I went to ./configure xmms again and i got the same output, i'm totally confused as to why this is happening, i noticed the output says it cannot find glib-Config script installed by glib. I'm confused! Should my install of GLIB have made this file?!?!

I've seen this problem crop up on a few forums but i can't find an answer. Am i doing something wrong when installing glib? i can find a file called glibconfig.h in my /usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include and theres also a load of files that sound like config in the directory /home/user /glib-2.3.1 where i made the install!

I've tried loads of stuff including altering the $PATH variable to look in these directories, moving files around, trying other multimedia (MP3 is what i want) players.

Please help if you can,

thanks

Stuart

you installed this to home/user/glib-2.3.1??

this is fine but the system will never find it here unless you alter all the environmental variables (even at runtime the linker variables will have to be set). I'd suggest you install the upgraded glib in /usr/ or /usr/ local

but if you are adamant about keeping it in your home directory:

export PATH=/home/user/glib-2.3.1/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/glib-2.3.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/user/glib-2.3.1/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

keep in mind the LD_LIBRARY_PATH will have to be set any time you want to run a program that links against this lib (or add /home/user/glib-2.3.1/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run (as root) ldconfig).