GTk/Glib 2.2 Install Problem

[jason healy <jason healy optusnet com au>]

I'm a bit new to Linux, and am having a problem installing GTK+2.2 (have 
tried the latest 2.4 several times which has resulted in a OS reinstall ).

I have downloaded the following source packages:
    gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz
  glib-2.2.3.tar.gz
  atk-1.2.4.tar.gz
  pkgconfig-0.14.0.tar.gz


I first built pkg-config with no problems. I then built glib as directed 
(./configure, make and make install) and set the environment variable 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

I can then execute pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 and get the output

  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include  
-L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0

I then try and install atk but this fails at the configure stage. It 
reports

  checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
  *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3, but GLIB (2.0.6)
  *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
  *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix
  the error
  *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
  *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
  *** required on your system.
  *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable
  PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  *** to point to the correct configuration files

It would seem that the test application in the configure script is 
linking against the wrong version of GLIB.

I built and ran the following test program (cut down version of whats in 
configure)

  #include <glib.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>

  int
  main ()
  {
          printf("%d.%d.%d\n", glib_major_version, glib_minor_version,
  glib_micro_version);
    return 1;
  }

and used ldd with the following output

  ldd test1
          libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40021000)
          libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4008c000)
          libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4013e000)
          libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4015f000)
          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40167000)
          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

which is the old library (I checked the file date and time). WHy is it 
linking against the old library in /usr/lib rather than /usr/local/lib ? 
How do I remove the old version of the library ? I tried removing them 
temporarliy, the source compiled and linked but failed to run correctly 
as it couldn't find the library.
Does this mean that the program always built against the right libraries 
but loaded the wrong ones at execution - am I misising an environment 
variable for searching for libraries?

Have also tried running ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib and have alseo tried 
editing /etc/ld.so.conf with no difference?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason
jason healy optusnet com au