compiling gtk 2.4 problems

[Conrad Gittins <conradg arcom com au>]

While trying to compile gtk 2.4 I get the following problem:

./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_type_instance_get_private'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_completion_complete_utf8'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_param_spec_get_redirect_target'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_object_class_override_property'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_type_class_add_private'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_object_interface_install_property'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_printf_escaped'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_take_string'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_vprintf_escaped'
/usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so: undefined reference to
`g_unichar_get_mirror_char'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [gtk-query-immodules-2.0] Error 1

And so forth.

Not knowing c programming, I've no way of telling whether this is due to
a potential bug or not having all of the necessary libraries or correct
versions installed.  This is also on the Debian Sarge release and it is 
possible that something is wrong (more likely my doing).  I have 
installed the packages (both .deb and tar files) that supposedly are 
required.

Any tips?

Regards,

Conrad.