how can I purge gtk-config* from my configure files?

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    Tim> they are already there, they are not suitable for event playback
    Tim> however.  for event recording/playback, check out GERD, you'll find
    Tim> a link to it at www.gtk.org/~timj

Thanks for the pointer.  I downloaded the gerd source and tried to build it,
but it appears gerd still wants the so-I-have-been-told vile gtk-config.
How do I purge it from configure?  I tried autoconf.  No luck.  Checking the
version, I see that I am running the latest version (2.13).  I tried
checking out the latest autoconf sources from CVS, but that failed with

    % cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs subversions gnu org:/cvs checkout autoconf
    cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to subversions.gnu.org:2401 failed: Connection refused

There must be some recipe for the autoconf-challenged like myself to switch
from gtk-config or gtk-config-2.0 to pkg-config without having to manually
edit configure files.  I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Sorry to be a pain...

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