webcams and gaim

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 20:27, gary wrote:
> [snip]
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... 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 is incorrectly installed.
> configure: error:
> *** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
> *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
> *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.
> 
> So, I check my versions of glib, glib-devel and gtk2 and get this:
> 
> Name        : gtk2                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 2.4.7                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 2.6                           Build Date: Tue 21 Sep
> 2004 07:53:11 AM PDT
> Install Date: Fri 01 Oct 2004 04:40:37 PM PDT      Build Host:
> tweety.build.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: gtk2-2.4.7-2.6.src.rpm
> Size        : 12168308                         License: LGPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 23 Sep 2004 09:16:25 AM PDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.gtk.org
> Summary     : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X.
> 
> Name        : glib                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.2.10                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 12.1.1                        Build Date: Thu 04 Mar
> 2004 06:44:34 AM PST
> Install Date: Thu 01 Jul 2004 03:32:02 AM PDT      Build Host:
> tweety.devel.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM:
> glib-1.2.10-12.1.1.src.rpm
> Size        : 342425                           License: LGPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 06 May 2004 02:27:30 PM PDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.gtk.org
> Summary     : A library of functions used by GDK, GTK+, and many applications.
> 
> Name        : glib-devel                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.2.10                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 12.1.1                        Build Date: Thu 04 Mar
> 2004 06:44:34 AM PST
> Install Date: Mon 18 Oct 2004 11:29:19 AM PDT      Build Host:
> tweety.devel.redhat.com
> Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM:
> glib-1.2.10-12.1.1.src.rpm
> Size        : 335593                           License: LGPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 06 May 2004 02:27:30 PM PDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.gtk.org
> Summary     : GIMP ToolKit (GTK+) and GIMP Drawing Kit (GDK) support library.
> 
> On the gtk.org website, there are several release announcements of
> glib with GLib 2.4.7 as recently as Oct 8th. I'd like to avoid custom
> configuration/installation and install via rpm and specifically via
> yum if possible.
> 
> Question: is glib 2.x available on any of the FC2 yum repositories?
> I'm using the following (from yum.conf):

The package you're after is glib2, not glib. It comes as standard with
Fedora Core. You'll be needing glib2-devel in order for the configure
script to find it.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>