Hi!

I'm trying to upgrade my Gaim 0.59 to the new 0.76 version, and then I found out that I needed my glib to be upgraded. I have glib 1.2 installed now and the new Gaim version needed at least glib 2.0, so I downloaded glib 2.4 and installed it. That worked well, but the problem is that I now have two glib versions installed and I was unable to just upgrade the glib using "rpm -U".
So when I'm trying to configure Gaim I get this error message saying that it can't find the latest glib version that I actually have installed!

Does anyone have a clue what to do? I've run ldconfig too without any luck.

Thanks in advance

The Gaim configure script uses the program pkg-config to get information about glib. That program, in turn, looks for a file glib-2.0.pc in a pkgconfig directory. So use locate to find out where this file is and see what's in it. There should be a line "Version: 2.4.0". If not, somehow glib wasn't correctly installed. If so, perhaps the file is not in a directory where pkg-config looks, since there may be several pkgconfig directories on your system. Move or copy the file to a different pkgconfig directory and try "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0", which should return the result "2.4.0". If not, keep fiddling until it does. Then Gaim should find the recent version of glib.

Thanks for the reply.

I know I have installed pkg-config, but I can't seem to find that glib-2.0.pc file you're referring to. Is there any newer version of pkg-config than 0.15?

Glib 1.2 and glib 2.x are not compatible, in the sense that 2.4 is NOT an upgrade for 1.2 - hence you couldn't use the -U switch for rpm.

Useand see where it is, then you may need to add that path to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable before pkg-config can find it.

I don't know, but 0.15.0 of pkg-config should work ok -- that's the version I have. The glib-2.0.pc file is not part of pkg-config, but rather it comes with the glib distribution. Follow Komakino's advice, and if you really don't have it, maybe you should reinstall glib. Or compile it from source.

I had installed glib-2.14.4 and then I was obligated to install glib-2.8.0
when I configure atk-1.9.0 i met this error:
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.0, but GLIB (2.14.4)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files
no
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.5.7 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
*** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
*** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

I removed glib-2.14.4 directories from all paths and : i typed
ldconfig -f /etc/ld.so.conf
then i retype:
[root@localhost atk-1.9.0]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/
I met the same error
where glib-2.14.4 existes and how to remove it.


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