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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Error making 0.9.6 on Solaris 2.6

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:10:14 +0200
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:19:19PM -0400, Morgan, Chip E. wrote:
> but am still getting
> Glib errors in the Ethereal configure output. I'm confused about why the
> configure program first says that Glib is there, but then says that it isn't
> (or at least can't use it).
> 
> /Appsmstr/ethereal-0.9.6
> 143> ./configure --without-ucdsnmp 
> creating cache ./config.cache
...
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes
> checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... yes
> checking whether GLib supports loadable modules... yes
...
> configuring in epan
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --without-ucdsnmp
> --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
...
> checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/glib-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.1.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> *** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
> *** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
> *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
> *** is required on your system
> ***
> *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
> *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Weird. Could you please mail me the file epan/config.log. It should contain
a log of what went wrong while running configure.

  Ciao
          Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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