Re Help to configure

David Hampton hampton at employees.org
Tue Sep 9 19:28:33 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:39, bob parker wrote:
> I have just downloaded GnuCash version 1.8.5. source tarball.
> My system is Debian GnuLinux Woody.
> 
> ./configure gives the following error messages:
> 
> checking for glib-config... no
> checking for GLIB - version >= 0.99.7... no
> *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
> *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to glib-config.
> configure: error: Cannot find glib. Check config.log
> 
> The only glibs I can find on my system are glibc and mpeglib.

Then you aren't running gnome.  :-)   If you have any gtk based apps on
your system then you have to have glib installed.  The error above is
actually printed because the script can't find the glib-devel package.

David

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