SuSE

First off I try to install XTheater on SuSE 9.2 Pro I run the ./configure command and this is what I get

chris@linux:~/Desktop/Xtheater-0.9.2> ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for c++... (cached) c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... (cached) yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for object suffix... o
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... no
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: GLIB >= 1.2.0 not found!

I have the GLIB 2 or something like that I found it in /opt/gnome/include/glib. Thanks in advance to all help. I think I'm going to start a website about help with Linux so people like me don't go insane trying to figure it out.

Have you tried
# export GLIB_CONFIG="/full/path/to/glib-config"
# ./configure

Cheers
ZB

Ok, I'm understanding Linux a little bit but I searched my files and folders and found nothing named GLIB_CONFIG. I just have a glib-2.0 folder. Thanks for taking the time to help zazzybob.

You need to search for "glib-config". Try something like
find / -name "glib-config" -print
as root. This will print the full path to the file.

Then, set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to contain this path, as shown with my command in the above post.

Cheers
ZB

Ok, I found a glibconfig.h file in file:/opt/gnome/lib/glib-2.0/include is this what I'm looking for or is it just glib-config. Also I can't seem to login to root anymore it just keeps bringing up the Yast screen when I login to root...dumb linux *scratchs head*

I went into the root console from my user session and did a search and this is what is did:
linux:~ # find / -name "glib-config" -print
find: /media/cdrecorder: No medium found
find: /media/floppy: No medium found
linux:~ #

From what I can find it should be located in /usr/local/bin/glib-config but my /usr/local/bin/ folder is completely empty. I can go into YaST though and it shows all glib packages are installed. Maybe SuSE 9.2 Pro is deciding to hide everything

Hmm. I've heard of the logging in as root and getting YaST problem before. You can still do a "su" to root via a console though, as you have.

It might be worth firing up YaST anyway and re-installing the glib* packages (including any dev or devel packages) and/or lib*glib* packages.

You might also want to try searching rpmfind.net for a XTheater RPM for SUSE - this will make the installation painless via rpm.

On my SuSE 8.2 machine, the full path to glib-config is
/usr/bin/glib-config, so do an ls -l /usr/bin/glib-config - if it's there, then export GLIB_CONFIG set to this path.

i.e. export GLIB_CONFIG=/usr/bin/glib-config
then re-run ./configure

You can do "glib-config --version" to see which version you're running.

If a "which glib-config" doesn't find the glib-config script then either it is not in your PATH or all of glib isn't installed.

In SUSE 8.2, an "rpm -qvf /usr/bin/glib-config" shows that it is contained within glib-devel-1.2.10-372.rpm (although your version should be newer).

A few things to try!

Cheers
ZB

Ok, I'm about ready to strangle SuSE. I installed every single package off of all 5 cds and still nothing. In KDE when you goto the menu and tell it to "Find Files" in the "Named:" field how do you tell it to search for file names that just start with glib? Because when I do a search for glib it only pulls up the exact name of the file I entered. I typed glib-config --version and this is what I got...

linux:~ # glib-config --version
-bash: glib-config: command not found
linux:~ #

How in the world can it be installed but not be found...