+Simple install procedure
+========================
+
+ % gzip -cd glib-2.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
+ % cd glib-2.6.1 # change to the toplevel directory
+ % ./configure # run the `configure' script
+ % make # build GLIB
+
+ [ Become root if necessary ]
+ % rm -rf /install-prefix/include/glib.h /install-prefix/include/gmodule.h
+ % make install # install GLIB
+
+Requirements
+============
+
+GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
+compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc
+text file is installed in a standard location that contains the
+compilation flags needed for that library along with version number
+information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at:
+
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
+
+GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended.
+
+In order to implement conversions between character sets,
+GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine.
+Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however
+many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems,
+you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at:
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
+
+If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use
+libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to
+configure. This forces libiconv to be used.
+
+Note that if you have libiconv installed in your default include
+search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable
+it, you will get an error while compiling GLib because the
+iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv.
+
+If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris
+instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have
+the converters between locale encodings and UTF-8 installed.
+At a minimum you'll need the SUNWuiu8 package. You probably
+should also install the SUNWciu8, SUNWhiu8, SUNWjiu8, and
+SUNWkiu8 packages.
+
+The native iconv on Compaq Tru64 doesn't contain support for
+UTF-8, so you'll need to use GNU libiconv instead. (When
+using GNU libiconv for GLib, you'll need to use GNU libiconv
+for GNU gettext as well.) This probably applies to related
+operating systems as well.
+
+Finally, for message catalog handling, GLib requires an implementation
+of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality,
+you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package,
+available from:
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
+
+The Nitty-Gritty
+================
+
+Complete information about installing GLib can be found
+in the file:
+
+ docs/reference/glib/html/glib-building.html
+
+Or online at:
+
+ http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-building.html
+
+
+Installation directories
+========================
+
+The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix
+and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more
+detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the
+use of these flags is not tested.
+
+One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
+include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
+
+ $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/
+
+if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
+and should be deleted.
+
+.pc files for the various libraries are installed in
+$exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling
+other packages that depend on GLib. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
+correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
+application with:
+
+ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
+ pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
+
+
+Cross-compiling GLib
+====================
+
+Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found
+in the file:
+
+ docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html
+
+Or online at:
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