Unable to find libraries

[nroberts420]

I've just started using RH9 a few months ago and when I go to install some programs I get library not found errors. When I get these errors I download the libraries and run ./configure and then run make install. And then I try to do the install again I still get the same errors. I know I should be setting enviornment variables when I install the libraries but what variables should I edit? And along the same line is there a special directory I should put libraries in when I install them?

Thanx for your help
Nate

 

[RhythmAce]

Is it your shared object libraries that it can't find? Try running "ldconfig -v".

 

[nroberts420]

the libraries that it can't find is glibc or gtk. I installed then into the /usr/lib directory but it doesn't list those when I run ldconfig -v.

 

[ppc386]

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

 

[nroberts420]

is there a file that I need to put that line into so it will always do that on login?

nate

 

[ppc386]

I am using SuSE, so I don't know exactly how
RedHat handles this stuff, but probably either:

[tt]~/.profile [/tt]
or
[tt]~/.bashrc[/tt]

 

[nroberts420]

Ok, I've got it working now so it knows that the library is there but I'm getting an error from pkg-config:
" 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.0, but GLIB (2.2.1) was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best to remove the old version of GLib." But looking at this error I don't have GLIB 2.2.1 installed. I have version 2.2.7 installed. What the heck is pointing to the wrong thing? I set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to point to the right pkgconfig file so what is throwing me off?

 

[nroberts420]

This is what I get:

ldconfig -p | grep glib
libgthread-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0
libgthread-2.0.so (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgthread-2.0.so
libgobject-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
libgobject-2.0.so (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgobject-2.0.so
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libgmodule-2.0.so (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so
libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so
libglib-2.0.so (libc6) => /opt/glib2.2.0/lib/libglib-2.0.so
libglib-1.2.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0