Re: [mdb-dev] configure fails due to glib test, even when "disabled"

[Dane S. <bl...@ha...>]

Jeff and Simon,

Thanks so much for the help. Setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH was exactly  
what I needed. Here are the steps I used to get mdbtools to find the  
right version of glib that I installed:


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installed a local build of pkg-config:

wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkgconfig-0.18.tar.gz
tar xzvf pkgconfig-0.18.tar.gz
cd pkgconfig-0.18
./configure --prefix=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local

then set my .bash_profile to have these lines:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/ 
lib:/usr/lib/libc5-compat:/lib/libc5-compat:/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

then, finally, pkg-config found the right pkgconfig directory I set.  
Here is the configure output:

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checking for pkg-config... /home/dspringmeyer/usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.12.0)
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GNOME... checking gtk-doc version >= 1.0... no
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make
make install


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The key seemed to be both setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and installing  
my own local copy of pkg-config after setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH



Thanks so much. Quite a grueling process but I understand Linux a  
whole lot better than I did before.

Cheers,

Dane