Problem solved: Configure failing with gtk-2.2.0

["James B. Hiller" <jhiller visi net>]

With a great assist, I found and fixed the problem I was having with
configure.  Turns out I (inadvertantly) had two versions of
libfreetype on the system, one in /usr/local/lib that I had put there,
and one in /usr/X11R6/lib that XFree86 put there (that I wasn't expecting
or thinking about).

In some way, this caused configure to do two things wrong:

a.  The construction of the LIBS value that was being passed to a
gcc instruction to test for the presence and usefulness of libX11
wound up with -lX11 prior to any path (-L) value; and

b.  Two separate instances of libfreetype, and both of different
versions, were being referenced in the linker flags.

By simply eliminating one of the installed libs, the problem went away.

jbh