I'm trying to compile Midnight Commander on a KUbuntu 9.10 (Karmic) box with no root access. I've set up a directory under $HOME, downloaded the mc source package and various stuff required for building, such as autotools. I've unpacked the CONTENTS of all those packages into this working directory such that I have the usual ./usr, ./lib, ./etc hierarchy. I manage to get configure through a lot of tests, but I can't seem to fool it into finding glib.

checking for glib-2.0... checking for glib-config... no
checking for glib12-config... no
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.6... 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: Test for glib failed.
GNU Midnight Commander requires glib 1.2.6 or above.

My system has glib installed:

/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.3

... and I've also downloaded and unpacked the glib package into my working directory:

libglib2.0-0_2.22.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
libglib2.0-dev_2.22.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

... but still the elusive glib-config is nowhere to be found. It's not in any debian package for Karmic, either.

So I'd appreciate any help getting over this hurdle. Please note, again, that I don't have root, so I can't just merrily apt-get stuff.