Hi,

  I've been trying to compile Coot and its dependancies on a 64bit Dell
Precision 390 with a E6700 processor and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 Video card
running Redhat Enterprise 4. I've tried several visions of the autoinstall
script, but they have all crashed without giving any sort of error message
while building gtk2.

 I've tried installing gtk2 and its dependancies by hand, but I'm stuck at
atk-1.22.0. Not wanting to overwrite the native graphics libraries, I've
compiled everything with the new libraries going in to /usr/local/lib.
Pkconfig fails when I try to install atk because I have two different
versions of GLIB on the machine- the original in /usr/lib64 and a newer
version in /usr/local/lib. 

Please, please, please tell me there is an easier way to do this.

 1. Is it possible to use something like yum to get all these dependancies?
Are there any instructions out there for doing so?

 2. Or is there some slick way to use the 32-bit binary? 
  
 3. One of the things that I am puzzled about is that none of the
autoinstall scripts or the configure for COOT find the libraries that I have
compiled? How do I tell them where the libraries are?

4. Does anyone have any ideas on how to safely resolve the conflict in
Pkconfig so I could compile atk and continue my slow painful crawl through
the dependancies. I'm not familar with setting either the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
editing /etc/ld.so.conf. 


checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... 
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.16.0, but GLIB (2.4.7)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files
no
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
*** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
*** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.


4. The final question is that this is a new machine, so I could switch the
operating system fairly easily. Is there an advantage to using another
version of Linux? 


                            Thanks
                                    Clare

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