Hi,

I'm trying to compile GAIM (newest version):

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... 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:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.
debian:/home/boudewijn/gaim-1.0.3#

This is the result of the configure script.
I've already done configure make and (as root) make install on glib (newest version).

Glib is in /home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3

How can I tell the configure script to look over there??

I've tried this in the gaim diectory:

LDFLAGS=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3/ ./configure

which didn't work. By the way; I'm using debian sarge

I think it uses pkg-config to check glib version. Try running:
pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion
Does it print the version of glib? If not, then you have to give pkg-config some information about your package, glib-2.0.
Just checked out the pkg-config man page. Look inside the directory /usr/lib/pkgconfig (or maybe /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig or different, depending where pkg-config is installed). From what I can figure, you have to create a file in there named glib-2.0.pc. Look at some of the other files in that directory, for examples of how to do it.

debian:/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3# pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion
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


ah ok

I'll try addding the glib dir to the pkg_config_path variable:


env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3

gives this as output (a lot more but this is the one relevant line)
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3
so it seems ok to me


But I'm still getting the same error from GAIM's configure

So Icreated the .pc file:

debian:/usr/lib/pkgconfig# more glib-2.2.3.pc
libdir=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3/

Name: glib-2.0
Version: 2.2.3


Didn't work either

But does that directory (/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3) contain the glib-2.0.pc file? I think you'll need to create it. The contents should be something like:
It sounds like the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable needs to point to the directory where glib-2.0.pc file is, not where glib itself is.

Edit - It should be named glib-2.0.pc, not glib-2.2.3.pc.

ok. just copied your example file into /usr/lib/pkgconfig
and called it: glib-2.0.pc

Afterwards I've set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/pkgconfig.

Then I ran configure , which still spawned an error.

Ok, this evening I got on with the problem:

I've looked at my mandrake box's glib-2.0.pc and made the following one for my new debian machine (where I want to compile gaim):

glib-2.0.pc

prefix=/home/boudewijn
exec_prefix=/home/boudewijn
libdir=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3
includedir=/home/boudewijn/glib-2.2.3

glib_genmarshal=glib-genmarshal
gobject_query=gobject-query
glib_mkenums=glib-mkenums

Name: GLib
Description: C Utility Library
Version: 2.2.3
Libs: -L${libdir} -lglib-2.0
Cflags: -I${includedir}/glib-2.0 -I${libdir}/glib-2.0/include

I've put this file in /usr/lib/pkgconfig .

pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 return 2.2.3 so that seems correct to me.

Has anyone got a clue about what I'm doing wrong?