glib-config

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Andrew Stone" <exister99 at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build the gnucash-1.8.4 from source on RH 9.  When I
> run ./configure I get
> 
> 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
> 
> I installed glib-2.2.2, but this did not result in the existence of
> glib-config as required by gnucash's ./configure script.

GnuCash is a gnome-1.4 application.  You need glib-1 to build it.
That means you need the "glib" and "glib-devel" packages (the glib-2
packages wont work).

You also need the rest of gnome 1.4...

> I have heard rumors that glib-config is obsolete and replaced by
> pkg-config. If this is so then why does the latest gnucash require
> glib-config?  Do I need to install an older version of glib?

Because the "lastest" gnucash is a gnome 1.4 app..   Yes.

> Any help is appreciated, Andrew Stone

Why not install the Red Hat 9 GnuCash RPM?  You can find it at:

        http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/

Should save you a lot of time.

-derek

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