can't compile gnome-libs 1.4

[Jim Philips <jcphil mindspring com>]

I have installed all of the supporting programs and libraries I can find,
but gnome-libs fails to compile every time. All of the supporting files are
from the 1.4 directory under releases. My system is RedHat 7.0. It gets
most of the way through compiling and then I get these errors:

al/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -c gnome-metadata.c  -fPIC -DPIC
-o .libs/gnome-metadata.lo
gnome-metadata.c: In function `init':
gnome-metadata.c:176: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbopen'
gnome-metadata.c:177: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
gnome-metadata.c: In function `metadata_set':
gnome-metadata.c:302: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:302: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:329: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:329: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:350: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:350: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:357: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:357: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c: In function `metadata_remove':
gnome-metadata.c:389: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:389: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:416: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:416: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:433: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:433: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c:450: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:450: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c: In function `metadata_get_list':
gnome-metadata.c:482: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:482: too few arguments to function
gnome-metadata.c: In function `metadata_get_no_dup':
gnome-metadata.c:515: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from
incompatible pointer type
gnome-metadata.c:515: too few arguments to function
make[2]: *** [gnome-metadata.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rebus/gnomefiles/gnome-libs-1.2.3/libgnome'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rebus/gnomefiles/gnome-libs-1.2.3'