problem with a src.rpm

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 20, Keith Antoine managed to emit:
> Actually its not the .src.rpm or the tarball thats at fault its me and my lack of knowledge/memory. 
> 
> I am trying to get linuxvideostudio to install but am stopped either in configure or --rebuild by the 
> system not seeing GLIBC. The build stops at this point:-

It isn't looking for glibc, it is looking for glib, a basic utility
library for C. Quite different from glibc.
 
> checking for glib-config... /usr/bin/glib-config

Okay. If found glib-config.

> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no

It is looking for glib greater than version 1.2 and not finding it.
On my system, the output of glib-config --version is:

$ glib-config --version
1.2.10

What is it on yours? You may simply need to upgrade (see
XFREE->Libraries for upgrading instructions).

> *** 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 was incorrectly installed
> *** or that you have moved GLIB since it was installed. In the latter case, you
> *** may want to edit the glib-config script: /usr/bin/glib-config
> configure: error: Could not find glib-config

This is a red herring.

> Yes /usr/bin/glib-config exists but has the generic pointer to glib set at /usr
> as is the prefix=/usr. So what is it actually looking for to execute and supposedly where.
> 
> I am using mandtake 8.1 at the moment, have no idea what its looking for or how I can fix this
> problem due to ignorance. I did install the 2.2.4-9 mandrake glibc, devel and profile, is there 
> more that I need to install ? Shouldn't the initial install have installed glibc by default ?

See above.

Kurt
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