Compiled & installed gtk+-2.4.3 but still problems with pango

[Tim Nugent <t nugent qmul ac uk>]

Hi everyone

I've *finally* managed to build and install gtk+-2.4.3 using pango-1.4.0 on Fedora Core 2. However, when I run gtk-demo (and other gtk applications) the following happens: 

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[root tim bin]# /usr/local/bin/gtk-demo

(gtk-demo:10001): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1561 (g_object_ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (gtk-demo:10001): CRITICAL **: file pango-engine.c: line 68 (_pango_engine_shape_shape): assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

** ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
Aborted
[root tim bin]#
[root tim bin]# /usr/local/bin/pango-querymodules
# Pango Modules file
# Automatically generated file, do not edit
#
# ModulesPath = /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules
#
/usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-x.so BasicScriptEngineX PangoEngineShape PangoRenderX common:
[root tim bin]#

........................

I had some problems with PKG_CONFIG_PATH when compiling but managed to sort them all. However, I think I've got more than one installation of pango:

[root tim bin]# whereis pango
pango: /etc/pango /usr/etc/pango /usr/lib/pango /usr/local/etc/pango /usr/local/lib/pango
[root tim bin]#

.. which could be the source of my problem (perhaps gtk is linking to the wrong one?), but I've struggled in vain to remove additional ones.
Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers for your help,
Tim