For the LOVE OF GOD will someone please help me..

["Joshua L. McDowell" <joshuamcdo439122 cs com>]

 I am new to the GTK+ market and for the most part the whole "Open 
Source" thing.  I have downloaded, recompiled, and installed X, the 
various Kernels and so on.  But this has GOT to be the most rediculous 
thing I have ever seen.
I watned to build Mazolla to get that extra bang for the buck as I did 
the Kernel and X.  Well it asked for glib 2.0 so I got that, pango and 
gtk+. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Still nothing, I did the ./configure for glib, 
make , the rm they tell you to do in the INSTALL file and then make install.
 Tried to build pango and gtk and they both fail.
configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.0.6 atk >= 1.0.1 
pango >= 1.0.1) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so 
pkg-config can find them.
PLEASE if ANYONE has ever written a GOOD how to please pass it on.  I 
am about to give up on this and throw linux out in the trash!
 Also I noticed that no matter how many different ways I try and set 
the pkg-config to /usr/local/lib/blah blah blah it always points to the 
other one.
 Honorably,
Joshua L. McDowell
PS The state kidnapped my baby girl, wanna read about it?
HTTP://GEOCITIES.COM/JOSHMIA2001/