Re: building gnome

[Igor Gueths <igueths comcast net>]

Ok thx. That seems to have cleared it up. Config.status has been created
and now its ready to build. Going to see if it actually does. I will keep
you all posted.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:02, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi there. I get the following when I run ./configure in the ATK directory
> > with no options passed to the script.
> >
> > checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
> > checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
> > yes
> > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> > checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> > checking for Win32... no
> > checking for aclocal flags...
> > 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 compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> > *** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
> > *** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
> > *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
> > *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
> > that
> > *** is required on your system
> > ***
> > *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it,
> > although
> > *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > configure: error:
> > *** GLIB 2.0.0 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.
> >
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH is currently set to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. And the file
> > glib-2.0.pc is present in that directory. Am I missing something here? And
> > yes I did ./configure, make, and make install to install glib.
>
> OK, I suspected this might be the problem. We have some discussion about
> this on this list previously (a couple of weeks ago, or so).
>
> Did you do something like
>
>         export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> before running the configure script for atk? That is what the error
> message is suggesting above -- you need to give some hints to the linker
> about where to find the library.
>
> I realise you originally said you had pointed ld to the glib library
> files, but I am not exactly sure what you mean by this.
>
> If you are absolutely positive you have set the library paths and
> everything correctly, you can avoid this test in configure altogether by
> passing the '--disable-glibtest' option to configure. However, I would
> advise against this, since the test is basically a sanity check and
> seems to be detecting some kind of real problem with your current setup.
>
> Assuming you have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, could you attach the output of
> the 'env' command and the config.log file to your next piece of mail and
> we'll see if we can get further.
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
>