Re: [g-a-devel](no subject)

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:45, suriya mohan wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have to install ATK (Accessibility Toolkit), atk-1.2.0. 
> Following
> error occurs after executing "./configure" in shell prompt.
> 
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the 
> fileconfig.log
> for the exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is
> incorrectly installed.
> configure: error:
> *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
> *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
> 
> I have installed pkgconfig-0.15.0. I have GLIB as default in my 
> system
> (Red Hat Linux 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10). I confirmed this by 
> executing
> the following command in shell prompt and the output is as 
> follows.
> 
> [root Suriya atk-1.2.0]# rpm -qa | grep glib
> glibc-2.2.4-13
> glibc-common-2.2.4-13
> glib-1.2.10-5
> glib-devel-1.2.10-5
> glibc-devel-2.2.4-13

The error message is correct. You do not have GLib 2.x (x = 0 or 2)
installed -- you only have the 1.2 version installed, which is not
compatible.

On Red Hat systems, you need the glib2 rpms (glib2 and glib2-devel). 
You are going to run into no end of problems after that, too: a lack of
GLib 2 indicates that you do not have GNOME 2 installed, which is what
is basically required for all the accessibility stuff to work. This is
not too surprising, since GNOME 2 was not out when Red Hat 7.2 was
released.

You will either need to install GNOME 2 manually or upgrade to Red Hat
8.0 or Red Hat 9 to get it by default.

Cheers,
Malcolm