Problem installing GLIB for gnubg

[mrrrl]

I am tryin to install GNU Backgammon, but it comes up with this error when I run ./configure :

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 file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
*** You must have installed Glib1 or Glib2 in order to
compile GNU Backgammon


So I downloaded glib-2.6.4.tar.gz unziped it into a folder and then ran ./configure, then make, then make install.

Went back to gnubg, did ./configure and it came up to the same error.

So how do I tell if glib is really installed and where? Then how do I tell gnubg where it is?

TIA

 

[chipperMDW]

Sounds like GLib probably got installed in [tt]/usr/local[/tt].


I'd guess that you just installed GLib and that the dynamic linker probably doesn't know where to look for it yet.

To fix that, look at the file [tt]/etc/ld.so.conf[/tt] and make sure it contains a line for [tt]/usr/local/lib[/tt]. Add it if it isn't there.

Then, run [tt]ldconfig[/tt] as root. That'll update the file [tt]/etc/ld.so.cache[/tt] to contain info the dynamic linker needs to use GLib.

Once you've done that, GNU BG should configure properly.


Note that this procedure (running [tt]ldconfig[/tt]) is required whenever you install a library from source. Installing from RPMs or .debs will normally perform this step automatically.

 

[chipperMDW]

Oh, also follow this advice in the error message, of course:

If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path

[tt]PREFIX[/tt] is, again, probably [tt]/usr/local[/tt].

 

[mrrrl]

Thanks for getting back to me. I did what you stated and I still get the same error.

How do I find out where glib was installed to?

I am running Mandrake 10.1.

 

[chipperMDW]

If you didn't specify a prefix when configuring GLib, it defaults to [tt]/usr/local[/tt]. I'll assume that's what you did, since if you had specified a prefix, you'd know what it was .

To check to see if it's really there, you can run

ls /usr/local/bin/ |grep glib-config

If it got installed there, the command will output that filename.


If you don't get any output from that command, try

locate glib-config

or

find / -name glib-config

The first command is faster, but won't work if you just installed it. The second takes longer, but will find it if it's on the system.

 

[mrrrl]

Thanks again. Here is what i came up with

[root@linux1 bin]# ls /usr/local/bin/ |grep glib-config
[root@linux1 bin]# locate glib-config
warning: locate: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory
warning: You need to run the 'updatedb' command (as root) to create the database.
[root@linux1 bin]# updatedb
[root@linux1 bin]# locate glib-config
[root@linux1 bin]# find / -name glib-config
[root@linux1 bin]#

Nothing. So it appears that it did not install? Even though I did ./configure, make, make install and I received no errors. I will try again in the am to get it to install. Any help/ideas are still welcome.

Thanks

 

[chipperMDW]

It looks like the most recent versions of GLib don't install or use [tt]glib-config[/tt]. So the package was probably installed correctly and I just gave you a bad file to look for. Look in [tt]/usr/local/lib[/tt] for stuff with [tt]glib[/tt] in the name and I'm sure you'll find something.

What do you get for the output of these commands?

pkg-config --cflags --libs --modversion glib

pkg-config --cflags --libs --modversion glib-2.0

 

[mrrrl]

Here is whats in /usr/local/lib

[root@linux1 etc]# cd /usr/local/lib
[root@linux1 lib]# ls
gettext/ libgettextlib.so@ libglib-2.0.la* libgobject-2.0.so@
glib-2.0/ libgettextpo.a libglib-2.0.so@ libgobject-2.0.so.0@
libasprintf.a libgettextpo.la* libglib-2.0.so.0@ libgobject-2.0.so.0.600.4*
libasprintf.la* libgettextpo.so@ libglib-2.0.so.0.600.4* libgthread-2.0.la*
libasprintf.so@ libgettextpo.so.0@ libgmodule-2.0.la* libgthread-2.0.so@
libasprintf.so.0@ libgettextpo.so.0.1.0* libgmodule-2.0.so@ libgthread-2.0.so.0@
libasprintf.so.0.0.0* libgettextsrc-0.14.3.so* libgmodule-2.0.so.0@ libgthread-2.0.so.0.600.4*
libgettextlib-0.14.3.so* libgettextsrc.la* libgmodule-2.0.so.0.600.4* pkgconfig/
libgettextlib.la* libgettextsrc.so@ libgobject-2.0.la* preloadable_libintl.so
[root@linux1 lib]#


and here is what I get with the commands:

[root@linux1 etc]# pkg-config --cflags --libs --modversion glib
sh: line 1: glib-config: command not found
sh: line 1: glib-config: command not found
sh: line 1: glib-config: command not found


[root@linux1 etc]# pkg-config --cflags --libs --modversion glib-2.0
Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found
[root@linux1 etc]#

 

[chipperMDW]

When building GNU BG, try:

./configure --with-glib=/usr/local

Otherwise, try

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH":/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

./configure

 

[flugh]

Not sure if compiling from source installs header files and all by default. Maybe try going back to the source code and do a './configure --help | less' and see if you need to do something like --enable-devel or something. The default configuration may be to not install headers and all.

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JBR