Problems with glib 2.20 installation

stockdox · 03-26-2009, 02:20 PM

Hello,
I have the following problem:
I downloaded glib 2.20 tar package, ran ./configure command but after running "make" command I received an error message:

Quote:

In file included from gdir.c:34:
../dirent.h:42: error: field ‘dd_dta’ has incomplete type
../dirent.h:64: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘opendir’
../dirent.h:65: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘readdir’
../dirent.h:66: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘closedir’
../dirent.h:67: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘rewinddir’
../dirent.h:68: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘telldir’
../dirent.h:69: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘seekdir’
../dirent.h:79: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘wchar_t’
../dirent.h:89: error: field ‘dd_dta’ has incomplete type
../dirent.h:108: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘wchar_t’
../dirent.h:113: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wopendir’
../dirent.h:114: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wreaddir’
../dirent.h:115: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wclosedir’
../dirent.h:116: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wrewinddir’
../dirent.h:117: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wtelldir’
../dirent.h:118: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘_wseekdir’

So, the process of making the package was terminated. I tried to install an older glib package but received the same error message. Could you help me please?

knudfl · 03-26-2009, 04:58 PM

Welcome to LQ.

All Linux's usually have 'glib-2.x' installed by default.

And you are probably using an old Linux OS, when dirent.h
causes those errors ?

So please tell, what you are using, ..... and the reason to
change the glib-2.x .
.....

John VV · 03-26-2009, 11:04 PM

Quote:

..... and the reason to change the glib-2.x .

MOST DEFIANTLY that .Installing a new / different glib on your system CAN kill it unless you take precautions
like passinf a build directory to "configure " that IS NOT IN THE SYSTEM PATH

Code:

./configure --prefix=/opt/myBuilds/Glib-2.20

then pass those lib and include folders to what ever programs you are building that need it
this dose become a VERY BIG PAIN IN THE A?? to do .

stockdox · 03-27-2009, 03:27 AM

I am using Fedora 10. I need to install GTK+ and it requires glib 2.0 or better, however there is only glib 1.2 installed in Fedora 10.

knudfl · 03-27-2009, 06:22 AM

Fedora 10 already has these packages installed :

glib2-2.18.2, gtk2-2.14.4

'gtk+' = 'gtk2' = 'gtk-2.xx'

> > Use this command to know installed packages, e.g.
'rpm -qa | grep glib'
and 'rpm -qa | sort > my-packages.txt' to get a text
file with all packages in /home/"username"/

You may want : glib2-devel, gtk2-devel :
# yum -y install glib2-devel gtk2-devel
to compile other stuff.
( Also try e.g. # yum search glib2 )
Please always use 'yum' for any install, when at all possible.

And changing to a different version of glib2 and gtk2
will trash "everything" as John VV said. 150....600
other applications depends on those.

If you think, you need glib2-devel etc. to compile an
application, it's a much better idea to have the
'rpmfusion.org' repo included in your system :
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

and then use # 'yum search <name>' for the required
new application.
...........................
( Concerning the glib 2.20 you tried to build : it will
compile in 2 minutes with no errors on a clean install
of Fedora 10 ......... I tried that yesterday. So what has
happened to your glibc-devel ? ? It includes the
header dirent.h causing the errors. )
.....

John VV · 03-27-2009, 12:53 PM

Quote:

And changing to a different version of glib2 and gtk2
will trash "everything" as John VV said. 150....600
other applications depends on those.

I DO know that from exp. ( although I HAVE NOT trashed fedora doing so ) i like to build the dev tree for gimp( and other programs) and it often will require a " newer/ testing" version of GTK( or some other things) . you MUST be very, VERY, VERYcareful when doing that .

Quote:

I am using Fedora 10. I need to install GTK+ and it requires glib 2.0 or better, however there is only glib 1.2 installed in Fedora 10.

there is a legacy install of the 1.2 for older programs but even fedora 9 has
" gtk2-2.12.12-2 " and " glib2-2.16.6-2 " installed
if you are trying to build a program that needs gtk and glib please install the devel lib's the easiest way would be to install the dev tools and dev libs for everything

Code:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "System Tools" "GNOME Software Development"

"System Tools" is nice but not 100% mandatory

you can also just install what you need for that one program

Code:

yum install gtk2-devel glib2-devel

stockdox · 03-28-2009, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

I DO know that from exp. ( although I HAVE NOT trashed fedora doing so ) i like to build the dev tree for gimp( and other programs) and it often will require a " newer/ testing" version of GTK( or some other things) . you MUST be very, VERY, VERYcareful when doing that .

there is a legacy install of the 1.2 for older programs but even fedora 9 has
" gtk2-2.12.12-2 " and " glib2-2.16.6-2 " installed
if you are trying to build a program that needs gtk and glib please install the devel lib's the easiest way would be to install the dev tools and dev libs for everything

Code:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "System Tools" "GNOME Software Development"

"System Tools" is nice but not 100% mandatory

you can also just install what you need for that one program

Code:

yum install gtk2-devel glib2-devel

OK. Thanks for advice.

whoami_2007 · 04-29-2009, 07:34 AM

Hi,

I am facing a similar problem. I am trying to install a newer version of firefox which requires GTK+ 2.10+, Glib 2.12+, Pango 1.14 and X.Org 1.0. While installing Glib 2.20 I got the error:

"configure: error: *** pkg-config too old; version 0.16 or better required."

It looks like the machine I am using has a pretty old version of RHEL Linux. The kernel version is 2.6.9.

I haven't ever used yum. Can somebody provide a list of rpms to install to get rid of the issues?

Thanks.
- whoami

John VV · 04-29-2009, 11:38 AM

whoami_2007
back in "09-18-07" you installed SUSE 10.2
and now you do not know WHAT version of REHL you installed , call your paid for tech support . of if the "free" unsupported version . then THERE are no updates and yum WILL not work until you pay for it .or configure it to use the cent repos .

install centos 5.3

whoami_2007 · 04-30-2009, 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

whoami_2007
back in "09-18-07" you installed SUSE 10.2

That was in a VM sitting on top on VMWare Server installed on a Windows machine. I am now have a Linux PC at my disposal.

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

and now you do not know WHAT version of REHL you installed , call your paid for tech support . of if the "free" unsupported version . then THERE are no updates and yum WILL not work until you pay for it .or configure it to use the cent repos .

I believe it is a supported version. Wanted to check if I can fix things myself before approaching the office IT guy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

install centos 5.3

Thanks for your response