HI,

I'm trying to install glibmm-2.13.3 from sources and I get this error message from running the configure script ...

checking for GLIBMM... Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.9.0' but version of GLib is 2.4.7
configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.9.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.9.0 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.9.0) were not met:



Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GLIBMM_CFLAGS
and GLIBMM_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
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Looks to me like, it is not accepting glib-2.4.7 which is glib-2.0 >= 2.9... any guess, why it is giving that error message... ???

I have all those packages mentioned above and they are all in the standard directories and pkg-config is able to find the .pc files...

the tail part of config.log is

prefix='NONE'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define GLIBMM_MAJOR_VERSION 2
#define GLIBMM_MICRO_VERSION 3
#define GLIBMM_MINOR_VERSION 13
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
#define HAVE_FLOCKFILE 1
#define HAVE_FUNLOCKFILE 1
#define HAVE_GETC_UNLOCKED 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
#define HAVE_MKFIFO 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define PACKAGE "glibmm"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define VERSION "2.13.3"
#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;

configure: exit 1

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let me know if anyone needs more information.... any help is greatly appreciated.... thanks,.

You have version 2.4.7 of glib, gtkmm needs version 2.9.0 or greater. 2.4.7 is less than 2.9.0. Install a newer version of glib.

That’s exactly the problem… Your version of glib2 is too old. Try upgrading to a version greater than glib-2.9 (the latest version at this time is 2.13).
You do have a glib-2 with version greater than 2.9? Try typing “pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion” into the console. If the version returned is not greater than 2.9, then either you don’t have such a version installed, or it is not “in the standard directories and pkg-config is unable to find the .pc files”.

thanks arow... I thought that required version should be in between 2.0 and 2.9... but it was my misunderstanding...

looks like I got to install gobject and gmodule latest versions too,...

thanks for the help