Trying to do a "personal" install of gtk+1.2.10

[David Goldsmith <dgoldsmi hawaii edu>]

I'm trying to do a "personal" install - because I don't have root access -
of gtk+1.2.10 in Solaris 5.7.  As near as I can tell (none of the steps in
the install instructions terminated w/ an error or warning), I
successfully installed all the glib files in a glib-1.2.10 directory
immediately under my home directory, and added my home directory,
$HOME/glib-1.2.10, and all the directories under $HOME/glib-1.2.10 to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then in $HOME/gtk+-1.2.10, sh ./configure --prefix=$home
gets successfully as far as

"checking for glib-config... /home/hal/dgoldsmi/bin/glib-config"

but then reports:

checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
*** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
that
*** is required on your system

I have addeded everything I can think of to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I have no
ld.so.conf file in /etc (and can't add one 'cause I don't have root
access), and ldconfig doesn't appear to be recognized by my system.

Am I trying to do the impossible?  If not, what do I need to do?  Thanks,

David Goldsmith