Problem of Pidgin 2.10.11 Compilation on OpenSUSE 13.2 x86_64

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Mikhail,

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:40:13 +0200
Mikhail Kasimov <mikhail.kasimov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Given: OpenSUSE 13.2 x86_64, XFCE 4.10. Pidgin version in repos is
> out-dated (2.10.10-5.4.1), so I tried to install it manual from sources
> downloaded from https://www.pidgin.im/download/source/.
> 
> So, wget && tar && cd ./pidgin && ./configure. But ./configure fails with
> =====
> configure: error:
> 
> You must have GLib 2.16.0 or newer development headers installed to build.
> 
> If you have these installed already you may need to install pkg-config so
> I can find them.
> 
> =====
> 
> sudo zypper se -s pkg-config command shows that pkg-config 0.28-7.1.2
> x86_64 is installed.
> 

pkg-config is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config and uses .pc
definition files to find what it needs. To install the relevant definition 
file, you need to install the appropriate "-devel" (= development) package. So
search for glib2-devel (and later other packages like that):

http://software.opensuse.org/package/glib2-devel

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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