Re: Can't get ./configure to work.

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 14 Jul 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> tomi striano <tomi24@juno.com> writes:
> > >From within the gtk+1.2.8 directory when I run ./configure it goes as far
> > as "checking for glib version >= 1.2.8" it always returns no for this
> > check.  I've edited the /etc/ldso.conf so that it pointed to
> > /usr/local/bin/glib-config and ran ldconfig and still no joy.  I edited
> > the line within glib-config
> > 	--version)
> > 	echo 1.2.8
> > 	exit 0
> > 	;;
> > 
> > to see if that made a difference.  All that I found was that it was
> > reading this section when I did some bazaar things but it could not get
> > 1.2.8 into ./configure program.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?  Obliged John.
> > 
> 
> First suggestion, as always, is to get a nice binary package in RPM or
> deb format rather than compile it yourself. But, failing that:
> 
> The file config.log will contain the exact reason the check for glib
> failed. Possibly you added the wrong thing to ld.so.conf - it should
> be /usr/local/lib, not /usr/local/bin/glib-config.

 Also make sure you add --with-glib-prefix=/usr/local to your ./configure
commandline.
 
> Havoc
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad