You must have GLIB installed even for the non-gui Tethereal.
You do not need GTK if you only want to build Tethereal.
The dissection engine use GLIB quite heavily to manage hash-tables, lists
etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M Hoskison"
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:59 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] build problems
> Hi list,
>
> I trying to build ethereal 0.10.3 for use on a headless Sparc, so I'll
> be using tethereal, and gtk and glib will not be required and are not
> installed.
>
> ./configure --disable-gtktest --disable-glibtest --enable-ethereal=no
>
> <snip>
> checking for glib-config... no
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
> *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
> *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to glib-config.
> configure: error: GLib distribution not found.
>
> Any clues to get round this would be appreciated.
>
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