xmms environment variable help

Chomper · 10-19-2005, 10:35 PM

hello all,

i would like to install xmms but when i configure it i get this:

Code:

checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***

however, i have a suitable version of GLIB

Code:

# rpm -q glib
glib-1.2.10-16

how do i set these environment variables? what do i set them to? or how do i mess with prefixes (not even sure what that is)?

i may not even have this variable. i ran echo $GLIB_CONFIG and it returned a blank line.

any instruction would be greatly appreciated. thanks

btw...i'm running FC4

nadroj · 10-19-2005, 10:41 PM

check the install or readme file for the program your installing.. you should be able to specify the location of your version of the dependancy when you configure

Chomper · 10-19-2005, 11:17 PM

so i read the readme and install files but they weren't much help.

so say i wanted to set the GLIB_CONFIG variable to something while i'm configuring xmms. it seems i would say

./configure GLIB_CONFIG = <path>

but then the question is still, the path to what?

Code:

# rpm -ql glib
/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10
/usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.10
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/README

i assume i should be looking for a file called glib-config but i don't see it. if i "locate glib-config" ... i don't get anything back. what should i be setting this variable to?

while i wait for more replies i'll browse through the glib readme file

thanks again...

btmiller · 10-19-2005, 11:23 PM

You may need to install the glib-devel package to make sure you have the programming headers and tools necessary to build software based off of glib. You should verify that you have a glib-config script and if not install the devel package and try again, following the advice given above also if you run into more trouble.