"GLib incorrectly installed"?

[LEONIDAS JEGOROVAS]

Unfortunately there is no file called 'glib2-config' in '/usr/local/bin',
but there are 'glib-genmarshal', 'glib-gettextsize', 'glib-mknums' and
'gobject-query' (I only listed the ones which I think are relevant).

Leonidas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Bruda" <bruda@cs.ubishops.ca>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: "GLib incorrectly installed"?


> At 09:19 -0000 on 2004-2-18 LEONIDAS JEGOROVAS wrote:
>  >
>  > Yeah there is a directory named 'glib-2.0', and there are loads of
>  > executables that begin with 'lib', but no 'glib-config'.
>
> I did not mean that the executable is in /usr/local/lib, sorry for the
> confusion.  It should be instead in /usr/local/bin.  I assume it is
> not there, and I am assuming also that you have an executable
> /usr/local/bin/glib2-config.  If so, change to /usr/local/bin and do
>
>     ln -s glib2-config glib-config
>
> Do not forget to perform the other step I was talking about: edit
> /etc/ld.so.conf and add at the end of it the line
>
>     /usr/local/lib
>
> and run
>
>     ldconfig
>
> After all of this the compilatiopn of applications using GLib should
> work (at the very least they should no longer choke at Glib ;-) ).
> Should such compilations continue to fail at the same point I confess
> I am at a loss about what is happening there.
>
> Stefan
>
> -- 
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