Hello!

The problem in my other post seems to be going a lot deeper...

To make it short: I have compiled and installed new versions (2.4) of glib and gtk+ a while ago. Now I found out that glib-config --version and gtk-config --version both say 1.2.10. I downloaded glib 2.4 again, compiled and installed it, glib-config --version still says 1.2.10. Any idea what may be wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance,
-Wojtek

glib 1.x and glib 2.x as well as gtk 1.x and 2.x are different and can coexist on a system. I am sure your gtk2 and glib2 installation is fine because I have them installed on my system but the version of glib-config is listed as 1.2.10.

Thanks!

How do I find out then if I have glib 2.4 or 2.6 installed? I have a problem (getting lots of unknown symbol: g_assert_warning errors) that I have read elsewhere may be caused by glib and gtk+ 2.6 and solved by going back to glib and gtk+ 2.4. This could be hard though if I can;t find out which version I actually have installed...

in a terminal:

pkg-config --help

to see your options.

pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0

will give you glib's version

In /usr/include I have directories for glib-1.2and glib-2.0 ... presumably future updates will create new directories. I note that in /usr/lib/glib/include there is a header file called glibconfig.h which lists, among other things, major version 1, minor version 2 etc ... i.e. 1.2.10 so glib-config --version returns 1.2.10

presumably there is a way of updating this.

glib-config --cflags returns
-I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include

but what if we want to use glib-2.0 or whatever? Shouldn't this be:
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 ...

glib-config --libs returns
-L/usr/lib -lglib

which seems OK no matter what.

so what is going on here?

the 2.x.x of the gnome libs do not use xxxx-config scripts, they use pkg-config. if you want to use glib-2.x instead of 1.x, use pkg-config, if you want to use the 1.x libs, use glib-config.

Thanks a lot, this kinda clears things up