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glib installation

I'm trying to install Yammi as MP3 library mangement . Yammi requires XMMS.

When I went to install XMMS, I was told I needed to have glib 1.2.2 or newer.

I went and downloaded the glib 1.2.9 file from the internet and have been trying to install it. I get as far as running the ./configre script. When I go to the next step, "make" I get the following output:

Code:

make  all-recursive

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.9'

Making all in .

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.9'

CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_OTHER=glibconfig.h ./config.status

creating glibconfig.h

glibconfig.h is unchanged

echo timestamp > stamp-gc-h

/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_glib    -g -O2 -Wall  -D_REENTRANT -c gstrfuncs.c

mkdir .libs

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_glib -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c gstrfuncs.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gstrfuncs.lo

gstrfuncs.c: In function `g_printf_string_upper_bound':

gstrfuncs.c:870: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1037: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1080: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1111: error: syntax error before string constant

make[2]: *** [gstrfuncs.lo] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.9'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.9'

make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

What am I doing wrong to get this? The files are inside a subfolder of my home directory. Could that be the problem? I'm using Fedora 3.

You might already have glib installed.. have you tried doing a: rpm -qa | grep glib ...to find if and what version you may have already? And if its an older version, you should try to just download the updated RPM's to install and upgrade by those means.

XMMS dosent like my glib version

OK I did the above and saw it was already installed but it was an older version. I went and downloaded version 2.6.2 from the Web and was able to install it without any problems.

Now when I go to try and install XMMS, I run the XMMS configure script and get the folllowing

Code:

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 ***

I just installed version 2.6.2, so why dosen't it know that it's there?

glib-1.x and 2.x are two completely different things ( you can have them on the same system without conflicts. if a package requires 1.x, it will not be able to use 2.x, and vice versa. try 1.2.10 and see if that helps.)

OK, I tried to install 1.2.10 without making any other system modifications. When I ran the make command, I got the following:

Code:

gstrfuncs.c: In function `g_printf_string_upper_bound':

gstrfuncs.c:870: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1037: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1080: error: syntax error before string constant

gstrfuncs.c:1111: error: syntax error before string constant

make[2]: *** [gstrfuncs.lo] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.10'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/elford/Apps/glib-1.2.10'

make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

What do I do know?

what distro are you on anyway? also, can you install xmms from your distro's package manager?

I am getting this error in Fedora Core 3 trying to install glib 1.2.10. Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong?