Hello

I am compiling a source code which needs Glib library. When I do ./configure the following error message is produced.

checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... 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: require glib

I actually can't find the glib-config scipt.

However, I found a lot of libraries which I believe they are glib library files ( Newbie's language)


/usr/include/glib-2.0
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gmodule.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprimes.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gutils.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gunicode.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gnode.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gcache.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gdataset.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gbacktrace.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/grel.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gfileutils.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmessages.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmarkup.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gwin32.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gerror.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/grand.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gspawn.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gqueue.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gpattern.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gi18n.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gcompletion.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtimer.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gshell.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gscanner.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gprintf.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/ghook.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gslist.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gqsort.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gconvert.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstring.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtree.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/garray.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gasyncqueue.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gquark.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gdate.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glist.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/giochannel.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/ghash.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gdir.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gi18n-lib.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthreadpool.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-object.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtypeplugin.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gclosure.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gvaluearray.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gvaluetypes.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobject.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gvalue.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/genums.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtypemodule.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gvaluecollector.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gboxed.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gsignal.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gsourceclosure.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gparamspecs.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gobjectnotifyqueue.c
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gparam.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gmarshal.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0

/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0


Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Thanks

From googling around, it looks like glib-config was changed to pkg-config at some stage, so you may be trying to compile something against a version of glib that it wasn't written for.

Also, I'd check the versions of your glib package against your glib-devel; you seem to have version 1.2 libraries with version 2.0 headers (which won't work, but it could just be a weird naming thing).

There are two versions of glib, 1.x and 2.x. Its quite ok to have both installed. From the above post it looks like you have the development libs for 2.0 but not for 1.2.

yea that's it
glib1 and glib2 are designed so both can live on your system cause lots of apps still need the old one