pango detection issue

["Lytithwyn Eldohtar" <lytithwyn gmail com>]

Hi, recently I wanted to try the Lives video editing system, which requires gtk 2.8.  My current version is 2.6, so I tried to upgrade.

I downloaded all of the pertinent tarballs: glib, atk, pango, cairo, and gtk.  I installed all the prerequisites, but when I ran configure for gtk, it said "checking for pango flags...package pango not found".  However, `pkg-config --modversion pango` returns 
1.14.3 just like it should.  Furthermore, applications like The Gimp began to fail as if it couldn't link properly at run time.  I had to uninstall the new version of pango and reinstall the packaged version (1.8) that came with my distro, Slackware 
10.1.

I have run into problems similar to this in the past, and have taken up running configure with the parameter `prefix=/usr` to keep things from being installed in /usr/local.  This did not seem to help in this case.

Any ideas?

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