[Gllug] GTK2 and Glib 2 not showing up

[Stig Brautaset]

On Aug 10 2003, Will wrote:
> Hi, I'm a newbie but keen to learn. Problems with trying to download and 
> install various programs. When I do ./configure, it scrolls through but 
> then gives a message:
> 
> 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.
> configure: error:
> *** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
> *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
> *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.
> 
> I have had similar messages for GTK2 on other attempts to configure 
> programs. I have read a manual about paths but don't quite know if this 
> is the answer or how to solve it. Would be grateful for a solution to 
> this as it will help me install loads of stuff.

Do you have the development packages for glib/gtk2 installed? (I.e. the
header files etc?)

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