Compilation/use problem

[Rich Shepard <rshepard appl-ecosys com>]

  I encounter a problem when trying to compile a gtk-using application.
Yesterday, it also cropped up after I downloaded glib/gtk+ 1.2.8 and
compiled/installed glib-1.2.8 over glib-1.2.7. I'm confident the problem has
a simple fix, but I've not yet found it.

  After running ./configure; make; make install for glib-1.2.8, I ran
/sbin/ldconfig. I then tried to do the same sequence with gtk+-1.2.8. Here,
./configure failed. Apparently, gtk-config reported glib version 1.2.8, but
autoconf found 1.2.7.

  This is the same problem I encounter when trying to build an application
that requires glib/gtk+. The last time (Sunday), ./configure failed saying
that version 1.2.7 was reported, but version 1.2.3 was found. Something has
become messed up here, and I don't know what it is.

  Here's the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf:

/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/sane
/usr/local/lib/glib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib

  (This is on a Red Hat 6.1 system.)

  Will someone here please educate me about this problem? Where are
glib/gtk+ being installed that other programs (particularly autoconf) cannot
find the correct current version? How do I fix this problem so it goes away
permanently?

TIA,

Rich

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