Re: [Bug-gnubg] glib 2 gnubg help

[Øystein Johansen]

Kevin wrote:
> Hello,

Hi!

> Im’ new to linux and not 100% if what I’m doing is correct.  I’m 
> attempting to compile gnubg on what I believe is a Fedora core 4 
> system.  I’ve downloaded the 0.13 source files from 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnubg.

Wrong start.... The tarball at alpha.gnu is antique.

You should rather do:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnubg co gnubg

> Now then, what I need is to be able to compile gnubg with only the CLI.  
> I **think** gnubg can be compiled so that it can only use the 
> commandline.  To do that, I’ve done is ran the following command after I 
> unzipped everything.

> configure --without-gtk --without-gtk2 --without-x

Yes, I believe this should do. But I think you need some automake magic 
first, at least if you check out from cvs.

> if this would then complete, and not hang on the following error, I 
> think we’d be gold. But as it is, I get an error =/
>
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
>
> *** 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 is incorrectly 
> installed.
>
> *** You must have installed Glib1 or Glib2 in order to
>
>     compile GNU Backgammon

Yes, this is true. GNU Backgammon requires glib to compile, even if 
you're not compiling with the GUI.

> At this point I tried installing multiple versions of of glib that were 
> anywhere from 2.10 – 2.13, but everytime, the configure refused to 
> acknowledge that it had been installed.

Any modern Linux distribution has glib runtime libs installed. Maybe 
there is a development rpm you're missing?

-Øystein