GTK 2.0.8 configure problems

[kevlinux hawaii rr com]

System specs:

slackware 8.1
gcc 3.2
glib 2.0.7
pango 1.0.5
atk 1.0.3
gtk 2.0.8

I'm trying to configure gtk 2.0.8.  I've built all the prerequisite packages
- glib, pango (with freetype and freetype2), atk, etc., but I'm getting the
following on configure:

checking Pango flags...   -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include     -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0
-lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for pango_context_new in -lpango-1.0... no
configure: error:
*** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
*** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org


A peek into config.log shows:

configure:16658: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall   -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/

X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2

.0/include     conftest.c -lpango-1.0   -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0

-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0     >&5
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_GetShort'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_ExitFrame'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_GetLong'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_Seek'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Next_Char'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Stream_EnterFrame'
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so: undefined reference to `FT_Get_First_Char'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:16661: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 16638 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks,

Kevin