Poppler's glib detection is a bit off. Poppler seems to depend on gstdio.h, which was introduced in glib-2.6. However, it doesn't technically check for glib at all - it only does so indirectly, by checking for gdk-2.0 > 2.4.0.
Thanks, fixed in CVS.
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