upgrading gtk+

[Largegeek <slackcub gmail com>]

I am trying to upgrade my version of gtk+ because I want to upgrade gimp. At 
least, that was the original version but now it has become an all consuming 
mission because I have been trying on and off for a couple weeks now with no 
success.

I just installed the following libraries:
atk 1.10.1
cairo 1.0.2
glib 2.8.4
pango 1.10.1

originally I had needed to keep my old version of glib on here because I was 
having other programs break with version 2.8.4 of glib. Mainly unresolved 
symbol issues. but whenever I would try to run configure on gtk+ it would say 
that pkgconfig reported v2.8.4 of glib, but it found my old one. After 
unsuccessfully trying to figure that problem out, I gave up and decided that 
I would just rebuild the programs that didn't work with the new glib version
Now I'm getting an error said that configure can't link to the pango 
libraries, when I know I have them installed in /usr/local. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

David
largegeek largegeek com