On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 19:06, Bob Colwell wrote: > Linux audio savants: I have a trivial newbie question. I have Mandrake Linux > 8.1 on my P4 machine, and I've downloaded GLIB 1.2.10 and GTK+1.2.10 into > two directories on my machine, like so: > > [bob@localhost bob]$ ls > autosave/ Desktop/ log.txt Mandrake/ music/ tmp/ > [bob@localhost bob]$ cd music > [bob@localhost bob]$ ls > glib/ gtk/ > > Then I go into glib, I gunzip, tar --extract, and then ./configure. > Everything seems to go ok, no errors or warnings. > > So I cd to gtk, gunzip, tar, ./configure, and get this error message: > > "checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8 ... 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 occurred. This usually means GLIB was incorrectly > installed > *** or that you have moved GLIB since it was installed. In the latter case, > you > *** may want to edit the glib-config script: > /home/bob/music/glib/glib-1.2.10/glib-config" > > I open glib-config and see this: > > ... > prefix=/usr/local > ... > > Which is the only path-like thing I recognize. Yes, there's a /lib on that > path but there's nothing in it. Should glib's glib-config have put something > there? > > Any help much appreciated. Seems like the tutorials all begin AFTER > succeeding at this stuff! > > -BobC
you need to compile and install them cd ~/music/glib/glib-1.2.10 make (as root) make install there will be a file called INSTALL which has more info. And probably one called README that is interesting. This is probably not what you want you probably want the precomplied biniary's and development files for your distribution. I know nothing about Mandrake. But some where you will have instructions on how to install extra packages. Failing that a news group or mailing list for mandrake is the best place to ask questions. P.s don't click replay on unrelated messages as you go in odd places in the thread. If it's a new message click the new button rather than reply. > -- rob
