Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:02 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, now with the keen help of this list I have managed to solve my NFS-problems and now I encountered something else: I wanted to upgrade my Sylpheed-version to 0.8.5 from 0.8.2 that I am using today. RPM misses a lot of dependcies and I don't wanna work through them all so I decided to try and compile it myself instead (Kvirc3 took about two hours to compile on my Pentium 166 (I don't want to think about how long a kernel compile would take LOL)) but when I run ./configure on this MDK 8.2-system I get the following error: Checking for GLIB-version = 1.2.6... 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 enviroment variable to the full path to glib-config Now I have a couple of questions. This has been tried on two MDK 8.2-machines with the same result which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed, but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a glib-RPM but only with the result that there was a conflict if tried to upgrade (Which should mean that glib is installed I guess) If I do whereis glib I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should and can do Sorry Anders. Can't help, but you should know that this seems to be a common problem. I have had similar messages with many other installs, in particular with packages from magazine cover disks. The GLIB one has certainly come up. Nobody has yet put forward an explanation, let alone a fix, so it must be some kind of bug in the installation script, which I would guess would be propagated from one script to another if a faulty script is used as a template. As far as I can recall there have been instances of a first time install where configure looks for a pre-existing config script - not logical at all. That is why I feel it must be a bug. I certainly never had the time to try and track it down. I have completely lost patience with tarball installations. Please let us know if you do fix your problem. Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:19:09 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Anders. Can't help, but you should know that this seems to be a common problem. I have had similar messages with many other installs, in particular with packages from magazine cover disks. The GLIB one has certainly come up. Nobody has yet put forward an explanation, let alone a fix, so it must be some kind of bug in the installation script, which I would guess would be propagated from one script to another if a faulty script is used as a template. As far as I can recall there have been instances of a first time install where configure looks for a pre-existing config script - not logical at all. That is why I feel it must be a bug. I certainly never had the time to try and track it down. I have completely lost patience with tarball installations. Please let us know if you do fix your problem. Yes, I fixed with the help of the person that suggested to force the installation of glib and subsequently with GTK+ as well, which will be next thing you will encounter. I personally don't mind compiling when I have the time for it, because that will make it better for the computer. What you need to is the following install the rpm's for glib and gtk+ (the libgtk+ that is) then just compile the sylpheed-package, it is possible that after you fix the above things it might be possible to install the rpm, but I have not tried this It is possible that it is a bug in the configuration script or perhaps that Mandrake 8.2 doesn't install it if you do not put in Gnome. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
Hello friends, now with the keen help of this list I have managed to solve my NFS-problems and now I encountered something else: I wanted to upgrade my Sylpheed-version to 0.8.5 from 0.8.2 that I am using today. RPM misses a lot of dependcies and I don't wanna work through them all so I decided to try and compile it myself instead (Kvirc3 took about two hours to compile on my Pentium 166 (I don't want to think about how long a kernel compile would take LOL)) but when I run ./configure on this MDK 8.2-system I get the following error: Checking for GLIB-version = 1.2.6... 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 enviroment variable to the full path to glib-config Now I have a couple of questions. This has been tried on two MDK 8.2-machines with the same result which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed, but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a glib-RPM but only with the result that there was a conflict if tried to upgrade (Which should mean that glib is installed I guess) If I do whereis glib I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should and can do Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed 0.8.5-compilation problems
In reply to Anders's mail, d.d. Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:02 +0100: which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed, but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a glib-RPM but only with the result that there was a conflict if tried to upgrade (Which should mean that glib is installed I guess) If I do whereis glib I cannot find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I should and can do Hi Anders, Try re-installing glib again from the MDK CD's. If necessary, use the -force parameter. Then try compiling again. I did a full install of mdk 8.2 on my machine and glib is in /usr/lib good luck Paul -- A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. --Edgar Watson Howe http://nlpagan.net-Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.8.3 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
