installing gtk+1.1.9

[John Kofi Dogbe <dogbe scs unr edu>]

I'm having a problem installing gtk+-1.1.9 on Irix 6.5. I did
./configure which apparently did not make any complains and ended up
with the following errors during make (I'm copying everything I got when
make started and terminated with the error):
        make all-recursive
Making all in po
don't know how to make deNONE (bu42).
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

Any help? The INSTALL instructions tells me it should be straight
forward, so what am I missing?
thanks,
John
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