compile error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 11:56:37 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> So, I have been trying to get sylfilter to compile and execute (since I
> could not find a rpm in the fedora 18 repos).
> 
> The source code is available at:
> 
> http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/
> 
> 
> Anyway, I configure in the following way:
> 
> ./configure --with-libsylph=builtin --enable-sqlite=yes 
> 
> Then I run:
> 
> make
>  
> I get:
> 
> ......
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I.. -I/usr/local/include -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=
> \"SylFilter\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -DLOCALEDIR=
> \"/usr/local/share/locale\" -g -O2 -MT procmsg.lo -MD -MP
> -MF .deps/procmsg.Tpo -c procmsg.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/procmsg.o In
> file included from /usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h:9:0, from
> defs.h:13, from procmsg.c:6: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:32:2:
> error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly." make[2]: ***
> [procmsg.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/maitra/Downloads/sylfilter-0.7/libsylph' make[1]: ***
> [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/maitra/Downloads/sylfilter-0.7' make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
> How do I get around this above error? I DuckDuckGo'ed for the above
> error but did not find a satisfactory answer, expcept that I should
> update the packages. But Fedora usually always have the most updated
> packages.
> 
> Any suggestions on this?

Edit defs.h and don't include glibconfig.h but glib.h as the error
message says. Do a similar thing for any other source file that causes
the same error.