building gnome from scratch

[Don Raikes <draikes theriver com>]

Hello,

I have a redhat 9.0 system, and I am interested in building gnome 2.4 from 
scratch.

I have tried garnome and jhbuild.
Garnome has problems retrieving some packages so that when I am done, I am 
missing things like gnome-session.

jhbuild has problems with similar packages.

Is there a trick to building gnome, or is there a better method for doing 
it?

Thanks,
Don Raikes, Gnome newbie