Partial success compiling CVS editions

[Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym mail wccweb com>]

I started with the stock RH 5.0 RPMS and have now compiled
glib and gtk+, although gimp now fails for different reasons.
Here's what has to happen to get as far as I did

First, I had to fetch the Very Latest editions from ftp.gnu.org
of (all?) the packages which comprise ./configure:

   libtool
   gettext
   autoconf
   automake

Then I compiled and installed each of these with 

     make prefix=/usr install

Next, I had to hunt down remnants of the old versions which were
not corrected by the installation --- I had toyed with using
rpm -e to remove these components before I rebuilt them, and it
is a good thing that I didn't as building all of them assumes
you have prior versions installed!

rm -f libglib.so.1 ; ln -s libglib-1.3.so.0 libglib.so.1
/sbin/ldconfig

rm -f /usr/local/include/glibconfig.h

Next, in each of the glib, gtk+ and gimp directories, I ran

    prefix=/usr autogen.sh
    make prefix=/usr install

This worked fine for glib and gtk+, but gimp fails with

cc -c -I.. -g -O2 -Wall -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../../.. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include -Wno-parentheses -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized  -DIN_GIMP -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -O2    -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00404/CORE  Lib.c
Lib.xs:495: parse error before `GParamColor'
Lib.xs: In function `canonicalize_colour':
Lib.xs:503: `sv' undeclared (first use this function)
Lib.xs:503: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
Lib.xs:503: for each function it appears in.)
Lib.xs:519: `c' undeclared (first use this function)
Lib.xs:524: `err' undeclared (first use this function)
Lib.xs: In function `pii_run':
Lib.xs:909: warning: implicit declaration of function `gimp_message'
Lib.xs: In function `XS_Gimp__Lib_gimp_major_version':
Lib.xs:1028: `gimp_major_version' undeclared (first use this function)
Lib.xs: In function `XS_Gimp__Lib_gimp_minor_version':
Lib.xs:1035: `gimp_minor_version' undeclared (first use this function)
Lib.xs: In function `XS_Gimp__Lib_gimp_micro_version':
Lib.xs:1042: `gimp_micro_version' undeclared (first use this function)

I figure I have a remnant left over somewhere, I'm still missing
something, or maybe I've run into Something Else ;)

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