Re: [Gretl-users] Compiling Gretl on RHEL 5
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Charles Gagnon wrote:
I support gretl for a group who uses it, so I don't use it
myself. But I'm
running into issues compiling and installing.
I'm trying to deploy the latest gretl-1.9.91 on a RHEL 5.9 box.
The configure script complains that:
Please install glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0 and then reconfigure gretl.
glib-2.0 is available from http://www.gtk.org/
Yet I have glib 2.12.3 installed. I checked in the config.log and it seems
like to be looking for > 2.14 so I'm confused:
configure:17635: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0"
Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0' but version of GLib is 2.12.3
configure:17652: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0"
Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0' but version of GLib is 2.12.3
Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0' but version of GLib is 2.12.3
I would just upgrade glib but it seems involved since the repository does
not have it available for RHEL 5.
Thanks for the report. We've in fact required glib-2.0 >= 2.14.0 for quite
some time now, but we forgot to update the text that appears if the glib
requirement is not satisfied. (This was fixed in CVS on August 1, shortly
after the 1.9.91 release.)
I guess we can double-check if we really need glib functionality that was
added between versions 2.12 and 2.14. I think the answer is Yes but we can
see if there may be a workaround. However, glib 2.14 was released seven
years ago, so it doesn't seem an outlandish requirement!
Allin Cottrell