On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Brian wrote: >> checking for GLIB - version>= 2.16.0... no >> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... >> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file >> config.log for the >> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly >> installed. >> configure: error: Glib 2.16 or greater required > > that's glib not glibc. > Current version in C5 is > $ rpm -q glib2 > glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1 > > your program needs a newer glib than that provided in C5. > I don't know how this could be solved, but probably not easily. Thanks! That has saved me a lot of effort. The back and forth I've spent this weekend before posting, I chalk up to the learning curve. Brian