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What is your distribution and release version? It sounds as if you may have not installed the developmental packages for whatever you are trying to install.
# What is the running kernel and compiler installed
cat /proc/version
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checking for char... yes
checking size of char... 1
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for shl_unload in -ldld... no
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
[root@localhost kxine-0.4]#
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[root@localhost sinek-0.7]#
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