installing 2.8

[Matt Eisemann <meisemann dsrnet com>]

Trying unsuccessfully to install GTK 1.2.8.  It looks like I succeffully 
installed GLIB successfully and I downloaded 1.2.8 for both versions of 
GTK+ and GLIB.  I am installing this on a Sun Solaris 2.6 machine, as far 
as I know and it seems the GLIB works succefully.  When I did the
   ./configure --prefix=/home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8

both the make and the make install seemed to work but I did not check 
everything that was printed out.

For GTK+, I also did a similar command

      ./configure --prefix=/home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/gtk+-1.2.8

and it seemed to work fine for a while till it got to the end where it said 
" checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8 ... ./configure: 
/home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8: cannot execute

./configure: /home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8: cannot execute
./configure: /home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8: cannot execute
./configure: /home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8: cannot execute
./configure: /home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8: cannot execute
no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link.  See the file config.log 
for the
*** exact error that occured.  This usually means GLIB was incorrectly 
installed
*** or that you have moved GLIB since it was installed.  In the latter 
case, you
*** may want to edit the glib-config script: 
 /home/matt/mppcm/ssep/GTK/glib/glib-1.2.8
configure: error:
*** GLIB 1.2.8 or better is required.  The latest version of GLIB
*** is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org

any ideas what happened?  There did not seem to be any errors when I 
installed GLIB?  Since I do not have root privledge I have to use my local 
directory and not
the /usr/local.

Thanks for your help.

Matt