Hello, Everyone :) I just joined this list for the purpose of asking this question. Before I sent this question, I downloaded the last 12 months of archives from this list and looked through a few months worth of them and I found nothing relating to this exact problem. For the purpose of hopefully being more clear, I will put this in numerical order (This ignores the unfortunate path that I went through to get to this point. Now I am back at the point where I was before I ALMOST hosed our system :) 1. I downloaded the most recent version of pkg-config and configured it to install in /usr/local (instead of Fedora Core 2's default of /usr) This went perfectly. 2. I placed the following in my "~/.bash_profile": PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig export PKG_CONFIG_PATH 3. Did "su - steve" to make sure that my "new" "~/.bash_profile" was read properly. This also had the desired results. 4. I configured and installed the latest stable version of glib, "glib-2.4.7" I used the following command: "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" This also seemed to go as desired. 5. I then proceeded to configure "atk-1.6.1" with the same command as I used to configure "glib-2.4.7": "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" This exited with the following error: checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.4.7, but GLIB (2.5.3) *** 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. [steve@ulrick2 atk-1.6.1]$ This is REALLY strange. The "pkg-config" that I wanted to be used was apparently detected: "checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config" I ASSUMED that "/usr/local/bin/pkg-config" would run "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0" in the path that it was installed in (see #1 and #2 above) How can "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0" return "2.4.7" and actually FIND "GLIB (2.5.3)" when there is absolutely no "glib" of any version installed in this path as of yet? You may ask, "Well, "pkg-config" looked elsewhere when it didn't find "glib" in it's own path." The problem there is that I had recompiled "glib-2.5.3" (assuming that it was Actually installed) and as root ran "make uninstall" in it. All I know for sure is that it appeared to uninstall with no errors. I recently reinstalled Fedora Core 2 because of an identical issue that I had recently. So I was REAL CAREFUL to be sure to not install this mysterious "glib-2.5.3" So not only is there no "glib-2.5.3" on our system, but there is Definitely no "glib-2.5.3" on our system in my new "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" Just for kicks, I just uninstalled the "glib-2.4.7" that was installed in my intended new "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" I will now attempt to compile "atk-1.6.1" I know it will exit with an error, I just want to see which one..... Here we go: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... 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. This is as expected, since there is absolutely no "glib" installed in "/usr/local" I will now reconfigure and reinstall "glib-2.4.7" in the "/usr/local" path, with "PKG_CONFIG_PATH" still set to "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" Now when attempt to configure "atk-1.6.1" for /usr/local, I get the original error message that I quoted in point #5 above. Now follow this: when I uninstalled "glib-2.4.7" (the only "glib" that I had ever had installed in that path) I got the kind of error that I would expect: one that stated that no "glib" was found. Then I re-installed "glib-2.4.7" in the /usr/local path, and "pkg-config" said 2.4.7 was returned by "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0", but "2.5.3" was found! There is no possibility that "glib-2.5.3" was ever installed on this path! Please refer back to point #5 for the full text of the error message. I confess that even to my relatively unlearned mind, this is starting to look like a "pkg-config" issue. As a result I will file a bug report on this. But I would like to know, is there anyway to work around this, so I can compile GIMP and Inkscape from CVS? That's how I discovered this problem. FYI, my tests that I described in the email had nothing to do with continuing efforts to compile GIMP or Inkscape from CVS. In fact, you will notice that the only packages I referred to in this epic (Ooops, I mean email :)) are pkgconfig, atk and glib. Our operating system is Fedora Core 2. Full installation (not an upgrade) Every package installed (over, I think, 1400 to 1500 packages) All official updates are installed, except that I am running the kernel that FC2 shipped with (the new one can't be used to burn audio cd's :() The atk, glib, gtk+ and pango versions that I am attempting to install come from the following location: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/ The exact versions are as follows: atk 1.6.1 glib 2.4.7 gtk+ 2.4.11 pango 1.4.1 I have only been able to install the above mentioned glib. Since I coudn't get past atk, I couldn't even try gtk+ and pango. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
