GTK+-2.4.2 on Solaris 8 - Anyone at all

["Jeffrey Creem" <jeff thecreems com>]

It is hard to tell from the various threads if anyone has had success
building Gtk+-2.4.2 on Sparc Solaris 8.

When I try I get (from configure)

checking for libpng12... yes
checking pixbuf loaders to build...
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
checking for x86 platform... no
checking for freetype-config... /export/home/bundle_2.2/bin/freetype-config
checking For sufficiently new FreeType (at least 2.0.1)... yes
sh: gnome-config: not found
configure: error: Pango 1.2.0 and Xft backend is required for x11 target
Configure of  gtk+-2.4.2  failed


I do have pango

gmodule-2.0 GModule - Dynamic module loader for GLib
fontconfig  Fontconfig - Font configuration and customization library
libxml-2.0  libXML - libXML library version2.
glib-2.0    GLib - C Utility Library
gobject-2.0 GObject - GLib Type, Object, Parameter and Signal Library
gthread-2.0 GThread - Thread support for GLib
pangoft2    Pango FT2 - Freetype 2.0 font support for Pango
libpng      libpng12 - Loads and saves PNG files
libpng12    libpng12 - Loads and saves PNG files
pangox      Pango X - X Window System font support for Pango
libxslt     libxslt - XSLT library version 2.
pango       Pango - Internationalized text handling
atk         Atk - Accessibility Toolkit

But of course I do not have xft since it appears to required the xrender
extention and the solaris x server (under solaris 8) does not support it.

So, since there appears to be some indication that this should work, can
anyone actuall report a successful
2.4.2 build under Solaris 8?