glib2 issues

Cyber Maid · 05-01-2007, 06:36 PM

After searching for a long time i have yet to find a solution for my problem.
I did find out that package-config doesn't seem to like glib2 for some reason...

Anyway, i can't compile any piece of software that needs glib2.
I'll take wireshark as an example.
while running ./configure it said i had 2 versions of glib2 installed...2.6.6 and 2.12.6 which was correct.
So i uninstalled 2.6.6.
When running ./configure again i get this error:

Code:

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ 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 GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
configure: error: GLib2 distribution not found.

Well then, i thought i'd install gtk+-2.10.9. (the version currently on my system is the rpm that came with my distro gtk+-1.2.10-25)
But alas...when i did ./configure i got this:

Code:

checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0    atk >= 1.9.0    pango >= 1.12.0    cairo >= 1.2.0) were not met:

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

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

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

My glib-2.0.pc is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc
And i did a export PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/local/lib just in case...

Anyone got any ideas? i'm all out...

lazlow · 05-01-2007, 06:42 PM

I do not know about your distro but in Fedora we have to have the -devel packages installed (in addition to the regular ones) in order to compile anything.

Cyber Maid · 05-01-2007, 06:44 PM

i'm building from source

lazlow · 05-01-2007, 06:51 PM

You mean you are building glib2 from source too?

Cyber Maid · 05-01-2007, 07:12 PM

i believe i got the 2 mixed up, sorry.
As you can see from the errors it wants => glib-2.0

And i installed glib-2.12.9 successfully from source.
I do have the old rpm still installed...loads of dependencies.

lazlow · 05-01-2007, 07:17 PM

Once again. In Fedora we would need BOTH glib2 and glib2-devel in order to compile something that needed glib2.

Cyber Maid · 05-01-2007, 07:46 PM

i don't need glib2 i need glib-2.0...and like i just said. i have installed the latter from source.
If you read the error you'd understand...and yes most distro's working with prebuild packages like fedora need devel rpm's...but not from source.

lazlow · 05-01-2007, 09:37 PM

Yes, I do understand. However, when you have an rpm installed (as above) a lot of times (not always) the system goes looking for the -devel to match the installed package EVEN when the package has been updated from source. Yes, I do install a lot of stuff from source (not source rpms).