Problem compiling CVS stable

[Olivier Fourdan]

Alex,

As said in the message, your glib/gtk instllation is probably messy.

One common problem is having more than one glib/gtk version at a time,
installed in different locations.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 12:18, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a trouble when trying to compile the CVS version of XFCE... it
> complains about glib, although when I enter glib-config the version is
> 1.2.8 (needs >= 1.2.6...).
> Besides, when I launch XFCE from Gnome, I see it searches for
> gtk-config, which is not present on my machine. I tried to upgrade to
> glib2.0 but nothing was fixed...
> Any ideas? (Mandrake 8.2, XFCE 3.8.16 running ok).
> 
> Here is the output:
> ...
> ...
> checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.6... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
> for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB was incorrectly
> installed
> *** or that you have moved GLIB since it was installed. In the latter
> case, you
> *** may want to edit the glib-config script: /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> configure: error: Cannot find GLIB: Is glib-config in path?
> [root at ROISSY xfce-stable]# 
> [root at ROISSY xfce-stable]# /usr/local/bin/glib-config --version
> 1.2.8
> [root at ROISSY xfce-stable]# 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
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