Configure Problem During Installation-libglib Incompatibility

[Josh Sled]

joemama <jibguard-misc at yahoo.com> writes:

> Installing on Ubuntu system which is using an older version of glib.  The
> configure program for gnucash expects a newer version of glib and when it
> checks the system (using pkg-config) it finds both versions of the library
> (I installed the newer version of glib) and fails.  Based on my initial
> tests, Ubuntu doesn't like using the newer version but as long as I don't
> change the soft link to point to the newer version it's okay with having
> both versions on the system.  Is there a way I can build gnucash with the
> newer version without touching the old version.  

If you're using a version of Ubuntu that's so old it doesn't have glib2, then
glib is going to be one of the least of your problems.

glib[1] and glib2 can indeed exist side-by-side on a system; the libraries
use different names, and the headers are in a different directory.  But you
should never fix problems by manually changing symlinks around ... use the
packages provided by your distro whenever possible.

See <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu> for some more pointers to getting
gnucash packages for Ubuntu.

It'd be helpful in the future if you indicated the version numbers and exact
error messages you're encountering.

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