Ok I'm trying to install xchat and I have encountered a a couple of problems. I tried both compiling the source as well as installing from RPM.

The source installation has given me the following error :
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.3... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: "Cannot find glib"

I'm guessing that I need GLIB (I'm assuming are a bunch of library files). Is there is anything aside from finding that and just installing/compiling.

The rpm installation gave me a different error however:
gtk2 is needefd by xchat.2.0.4-0
libcrypto is needed by xchat2.0.4-0
libssl.so.4 is needec by xchat2.0.4-0

What do I need to do to fix these errors as well?

Thanks in advance.

it'd be easier for you to just install from RPM, but if you do want to install from source you'll need to install glib-devel to be able to actually *compile* using glib. if you do "rpm -qa | grep glib" you should see the currently installed packages, so install the complementry -devel pacakge for glib.

The output of that command was:

$ rpm -qa | grep glib
glibc-2.3.1-10mdk
libglib1.2-1.2.10-6mdk
libglib2.0_0-2.2.1-1mdk
glibc-devel-2.3.1-10mdk
glibc-i18ndata-2.3.1-10mdk

now does this mean that glibc-devel is currently installed or is available for me to install?