those base lib config problems

["Jon Williams" <s369740 student uq edu au>]

re: the problems of ./configure not finding libs you've just installed even
though everything is apparently OK in terms of ld.so.conf.

I'm not sure if it was fully resolved but the two problems i've just dealt
with in installing gnome from source are the ld.so.cache and config.cache
files.

/etc/ld.so.cache can be deleted and if you rerun ldconfig it will pop back
up again and shared libraries will be found (it caches the list of
libraries, not just the directories...)
/usr/src/whateverprogram/config.cache can similarly be removed and rerun
./configure to restore the correct values if you changed things after
running ./configure once already.

Anyway, just trying to help out a bit in case anyone is still having these
problems.

JPW