Installing gtk

["James Marshall" <jmar globalnet co uk>]

I'm new to linux and am having problems getting gtk+-1.1.3 to work. I've got
glib-1.1.4 as well. Following advice I did  'configure', 'make', then 'make
configure' on the glib, which all looked as if it went okay. I then tried to
configure gtk, using 'configure --with-glib=(directory)' (else it didn't find the
glib) this also went alright, however, when I then did 'make' I got the following
after most seemed to have gone okay:

libtool: link: '/var/tmp/gtk+-1.1.3/glib-1.1.4/libglib-1.1.1a' is not a valid
libtool archive.
make [2]: ***[testgtk] Error 1
make [2]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/gtk+-1.1.3/gtk'
make [1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make [1]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/gtk+-1.1.3/gtk'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


I have no idea what's going on here, is there a specific directory you are
supposed to put the gtk and glib files into before configuring them? Any
help/advice greatly appreciated.

James