Re: Building with a locally build glib

[Marcus Karlsson <mk acc umu se>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 03:26:46PM -0500, Nicky Perian wrote:
> I am on Debian Jessie and it has system glib-2.42.1 and locally built is
> glib-2.45.1.
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> Despite significant jocking around the relevant paths to point to
> glib-2.45.1 I continue to receive at build:
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> *hecking for GLIB - version >= 2.28.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion
> glib-2.0' returned 2.42.1, but GLIB (2.45.1)*** 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 filesnoconfigure: error: *** GLIB 2.28.0 or better is
> required. The latest version of*** GLIB is always available from
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/ <ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/>.*
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> I can't easily remove the system version and I have changed symlinks in the
> /lib and /usr/lib to point the newer version and the above error continues.
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> Hoping for someone to show me what I am missing.
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> Nicky

It sounds like pkg-config is picking up the old .pc file. Depending on
where you installed the newer version you might have to set the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable so that it picks it up instead of the old
version.

It might also be a good idea to take a look at jhbuild which automates
all of this and makes it very simple to build and install a new copy
without interfering with system components.

                Marcus