Anyone installed Gnome on WinLinux? | Help with .tar.gz install???

[Stanislav Okhvat <stanis sibfair nsk su>]

I am trying to install Gnome on WinLinux, which I was told is
Slackware-based distribution. I would like to know if anyone reading
this had experience installing Gnome on this system and what are
packages required before beginning the installation process. Glib and
gtk directories are already in the /usr/local directory, but they are
too old for the current Gnome version, and I run into problems when
installing those into new directories and modifying Paths in
ld.so.conf and /etc/profile. I am also considering the possibility of
installing from RPMs, but there are no RPMs for Slackware (though RPMs
are supported in WinLinux and the whole system seems to have been
installed from RPMs because the KDE package manager has all the
programs in its RPM package tree) and when I try to install any given
RPM package (Red Hat 6.x) for Gnome, I have too many unsatisfied dependencies.

That is why I am currently trying the tarball installation.
Below are the lines in config.log from audiofile, the
first package I am required to install for Gnome tarball installation.
Similar problems with /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld pop up whenever
I try to configure glib, gtk, imlib, etc.

/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -laudio: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 2222 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

I also read in the Gnome FAQ that I can build RPMs for my system from
SRPMs for Red Hat, please notify me if I can do this or if anyone
tried this.
Thank you very much in advance and sorry for such a lengthy letter.

Best regards,
 Stanislav                          mailto:stanis@sibfair.nsk.su