Hi Guys, I have copied the output of the ./configure i run got GTK+1.2.8. Let me know if you can help me trace the error here. Thx a lot. I get this error although GLIB installs fine bash-2.03$ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) no checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking for ranlib... (cached) : checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) no checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/nm -p checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig checking for object suffix... o checking for executable suffix... (cached) no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... no checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no checking whether the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking command to parse /usr/ccs/bin/nm -p output... ok checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for /usr/ccs/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.8 ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for objdir... .libs creating libtool loading cache ./config.cache checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) no checking for mawk... no checking for gawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking for perl5... no checking for perl... perl checking for indent... no checking whether make is GNU Make... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for working const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for off_t... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for working mmap... yes checking for argz.h... no checking for limits.h... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for nl_types.h... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for getcwd... yes checking for munmap... yes checking for putenv... yes checking for setenv... no checking for setlocale... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for __argz_count... no checking for __argz_stringify... no checking for __argz_next... no checking for stpcpy... no checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext found xgettext program is not GNU xgettext; ignore it checking for catalogs to be installed... ca cs da de el es et eu fi fr ga gl hr hu it ja ko lt nl no nn pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sv uk wa zh_TW.Big5 checking for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... none needed checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed checking for glib-config... /scratch/users/ukoul/Ethereal/glib-1.2.8/glib-config 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 occured. 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: /scratch/users/ukoul/Ethereal/glib-1.2.8/glib-config configure: error: *** GLIB 1.2.8 or better is required. The latest version of GLIB *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.