[ale] Problem configuring 'pidgin-2.1.0'

[Stephen Leonard]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:27:58PM -0500, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I want to build 'pidgin' in my SuSE-9.3 box. I have the glib development 
> package installed, specificaly:
> 
>   glibc-devel-2.3.4-23.4
> 
> The 'pidgin' configure apparently fails to find the header and whines:
>  "You must have the GLib 2.0 development headers installed to build."
> 
> I've tried different '--prefix=' values, adding to PKG_CONFIG_PATH, with 
> no luck.
> 
> What do I need to do to build this app?

GLib is a library for GTK+ and GNOME, not the GNU C library.
So you may want to search your distro for the dev package of
libglib or something similar.

hth,
stephen