Glib1 vs Glib2

[Lowell Gilbert]

Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> writes:

> hi all,
> I am having some problems when installing ports that use GLIB 1.x , and I
> *also* have glib 2.x installed. I have, of course, packages that need 2.x.
>
> when building the pkgs that need glib 1.x (pretty much any package) i get:
> [....]
> checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib12-config
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0...
> *** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.10, but GLIB (2.10.3)
> *** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
> *** to remove the old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the error
> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
> *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
> *** required on your system.
> *** If glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
> *** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file
> config.cache *** before re-running configure
> no
> configure: error: glib test failed
> [...]
>
> The way i read this is that the build process gets an answer from glib-config
> (glib 1.x), but then it detects version 2.
> via the pkg system and bails out.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out how to use the GLIB_CONFIG variable
> properly,as the glib-config file it's finding *IS* the correct one
> ( glib-config does not exist in 2.x).
>
> Is the only alternative to uninstall glib2. while i'm building pkgs that need
> glib1 ? 

They should co-exist just fine; I've never had problems with it.

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