HELP: newbie compiling source code....

[kevingpo]

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I am trying to compile Captive Linux ( http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ ) from original source 1.1.5 for Fedora Core 3. Why? Because I tried the already-compiled Captive-1.1.5 for Red Hat 9 on my Fedora Core 3. The RPM installs fine and I've copied ntfs.sys & ntoskrnl.exe files to captive folder. But when I try to mount my NTFS parition it just hangs! So this is what I've done to compile Captive for FC3:

bash-3.00# cd captive-1.1.5
bash-3.00# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
... <snip>
... <snip>
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.
configure: error: Captive requires glib-2.0 library.
bash-3.00#

How can I check if I got glib installed? And if I do, how do I tell captive configure where it is?
HELP!

[Stormblazer]

You probably didn't install the devel headers for glib. Install them from the devel RPMs on the Fedora Core 3 install discs.

[valan]

Eww, glib and gtk dependencies can be nasty. But yeah, you need to install glib.

[kevingpo]

Eww, glib and gtk dependencies can be nasty. But yeah, you need to install glib.

I did install glib manually by using the glib2 RPM. And I still get told that I don't have it installed????

[valan]

You might need to run ldconfig. Also glib type things are picky sometimes if you don't have the exact version they want. Best thing I think to do is download the specific version (source code), compile and install it, then run ldconfig. You can download glib from http://gtk.org.

[Stormblazer]

you need to install the glib2 devel rpm too.

[kevingpo]

you need to install the glib2 devel rpm too.

Where can I get the glib2 devel rpm? URL please

[kevingpo]

With command rpm -qa | grep glib[^c]

I get:

glib-1.2.10-15
dbus-glib-0.22-10
glib2-2.4.8-1.fc3

I also installed http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/...1.fc3.i386.rpm

using rpm -ivh ...

And when I configure I still get glib2 missing. ((

What does ldconfig do?

[kevingpo]

Okay. I used ldconfig and got past glib problem. Now I got:

gnome-vfs-module-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'gnome-vfs-module-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

WTF is pkg-config or the gnome-vfs-module and how can I add this?