compiling balsa on blade150 w/ sol9 and gnome2.0

[Brent Miller <brent pratorlakeorchids com>]

having problems compiling as the libraries for gnome are in non standard 
locations. i am lost. i don't know a lot about unix and don't know how 
to tell the compiler to look for the libraries elswhere. can anyone help??

thanks,
Brent