swfdec

[Bill Fink]

Hi Thomas,

On Mon May 26 2003, Thomas Kuehner wrote:

> following the hint I downloaded swfdec and tried to install it on YDL 3.0 but:
> 
> > checking for 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
> > configure: error: cannot find GLIB-2.0, which is required for build
> 
> Trying to yum install it resulted in:
> 
> > [root@localhost swfdec-0.2.2]# yum install glib2
> > Gathering package information from servers
> > Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> > Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > glib2 is installed and is the latest version.
> 
> maybe it's really not in PKG_CONFIG_PATH...
> 
> So where resides it and how to add it (export....)?

I had a similar problem building gxine.  You need to install glib2-devel
via "yum install glib2-devel" (you may also need gtk2-devel as I did for
gxine).

						-Bill