Can't install glib 1.2.10 on Fedora Core 3

[Sureshot324]

I'm trying to install glib 1.2.10 on my machine so i can install xmms. I seem to remember that xmms need glib/gtk 1.2 instead of the newest version 2.5 (is this correct). Anyway, ./configure works fine, but make fails. Here are the last few lines:

g_log_domain_glib -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c gstrfuncs.c
rm -f .libs/gstrfuncs.lo
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=g_log_domain_glib -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c gstrfuncs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gstrfuncs.lo
gstrfuncs.c: In function `g_printf_string_upper_bound':
gstrfuncs.c:870: error: syntax error before string constant
gstrfuncs.c:1037: error: syntax error before string constant
gstrfuncs.c:1080: error: syntax error before string constant
gstrfuncs.c:1111: error: syntax error before string constant
make[2]: *** [gstrfuncs.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/louis/glib-1.2.10'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/louis/glib-1.2.10'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[root@localhost glib-1.2.10]#

Can anyone help?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Why not use the rpm?

 

[Nothinman]

Yes, use packages, it'll be a lot less frustrating and require a lot less work.

 

[Sureshot324]

The rpm worked, didn't try it before because it said it was for Fedora Core 1. Why does the source need glib and gtk but the rpm doesn't?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
The rpm worked, didn't try it before because it said it was for Fedora Core 1. Why does the source need glib and gtk but the rpm doesn't?

Maybe you have glib and gtk installed already. rpm -qa | grep glib might tell you (not positive, I hate RPMs ).

Or it's staticly compiled.

 

[Nothinman]

The rpm worked, didn't try it before because it said it was for Fedora Core 1.

It does, but to compile it you also need the -dev packages that have the headers in them which you probably didn't have.

 

[drag]

There is no need to compile all this stuff for Fedora Core3 just to get XMMS.

XMMS and many addons are aviable thru official Fedora mirrors and Third party repositories. Use Yum or install Apt-get. It'll make your life much easier. Realy.
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/lin...fedora/3/i386/RPMS.os/
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
(read the part about mixing repositories in the fedora howto wiki.)

 

[Sureshot324]

If you get Xmms from yum it doesn't have mp3 support.

 

[drag]

That's not a big deal then. Just add a third-party repository to your sources, they'd probably have a XMMS with the legally questionable codecs. (which btw is the LAME codec, so i don't know if you just need to have the codec aviable, or it mp3 support has to be compiled in.)

There are several to choose from..
at rpms http://atrpms.net/
fresh rpms http://freshrpms.net/
dags rpms http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/


pick one or two to update against and you should be able to get xmms support with MP3s. Thats one of the reasons these guys exist is to supply extra packages that Redhat/Fedora wish to avoid because of legal issues. Now that Fedore Core 3 is just out, they probably aren't going to have a whole lot, but they will.

And that way you can get access to lots of other programs that Fedora doesn't offer by default, too.

Otherwise what your going to have to do is install all those *-dev packages for all the different libraries that xmms needs to be compiled against, then make sure that you have everything.

 

[Sureshot324]

I did get xmms working with the rpm from the xmms.org site, but thanks for the info anyway. The default yum repository didn't seem to even have firefox.