Gtk configure fails against pango

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

I am recompiling gnome2 against ft2 
pango installed
atk installed
gtk fails with 

checking for pango_context_new in -lpango-1.0... no
configure: error:
*** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
*** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org

config.log says

configure:17035: gcc -o conftest -O3 -march=k6 -Wall  
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include     conftest.c
-lpango-1.0   -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0     >&5
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternAddString'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftRenderString32'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternBuild'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternDuplicate'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftFontSetMatch'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternGetInteger'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternDestroy'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternDel'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftFontSetDestroy'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternGetString'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libpangoxft-1.0.so:
undefined reference to `XftPatternGetDouble'
/pango                                                                           
anyone any ideas?