GIMP How to configure????

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Thanks for all the help sooooo far, I'm also there.

I have two files named gtk-config, one located in /usr/local/bin the other is in /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10 (this is where I dowloaded the .tar.gz file). I've pointed the PATH to both locations:

root joev:/home/joev > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
root joev:/home/joev > which gtk-config
/usr/local/bin/gtk-config
root joev:/home/joev > locate gtk-config
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.1
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.1.in
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.txt
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config.in
/usr/local/bin/gtk-config
/usr/local/man/man1/gtk-config.1
root joev:/home/joev > export PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10
root joev:/home/joev > which gtk-config
/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config

and the result is still the same:

checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.8... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: Test for GTK failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. 

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks Again
Joe