Problem with GTK

[Gottipati Aravind <slttg cc usu edu>]

Hi,
	I am trying to set up gtk on my linux (debian) machine. I can't
get it to compile even the first program. I get the following message
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~/prog/cpp/gui/gtk $gcc base.c -o base `gtk-config --cflags --libs`
/usr/lib/libdl.a(dlsym.o): In function `doit.2':
dlsym.o(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `_dl_default_scope'
dlsym.o(.text+0x4c): undefined reference to `_dl_default_scope'
~/prog/cpp/gui/gtk $
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The program base.c is the very first program in the GTK tutorial. This
is the program itself.
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#include <gtk/gtk.h>
int main( int   argc, char *argv[] )
 {
      GtkWidget *window;
      gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
      window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
      gtk_widget_show  (window);
      gtk_main ();
      return(0);
}
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This is what my library paths look like.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

this is the output of my gtk-config --libs
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~ $gtk-config --libs
-L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl
-lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm
~ $
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can anyone help me with this? I did what the GTK FAQ says and it still
doesn't help.

thank you
Aravind.