Problem Compiling Gtk+-2.18.1

[Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Alves <calvesmit ig com br>]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to compiling gtk+-2.28.1 so I'll can to compile firefox-3.5.5 from sources (wich depands on gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0).

But although I downloaded the latest package from www.gtk.org:

gtk+-2.18.4.tar.bz2
glib-2.18.0.tar.bz2
pango-1.26.1.tar.bz2

and followed instructions and steps from http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-building.html; specially Dependencies and Building and testing GTK topics; I'm getting follown error message when compiling gtk+:
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/home/calves/mydownloads/gtk+-2.18.4/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `pango_cairo_context_get_shape_renderer'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [gtk-query-immodules-2.0] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/calves/mydownloads/gtk+-2.18.4/gtk'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/calves/mydownloads/gtk+-2.18.4/gtk'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/calves/mydownloads/gtk+-2.18.4/gtk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/calves/mydownloads/gtk+-2.18.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Anybody could help me fixing it?

In addition, I also did in success the spteps
./configure
make
make install

for glib-2.22.tar.bz2,    pango-1.26.1.tar.bz     and     atk-1.28.0.tar.bz2     packages. 
I also did success for cairo-1.8.8.gz,     pixman-0.17.2.tar.gz      and    glitz-0.5.6.tar.gz     before pango.

But 'make check' of cairo return many error messages and a resume like
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103 of 205 tests did not behave as expected (1 unexpected pass)
Please report to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo
............................
Failures per surface - xlib: 15, xlib-fallback: 12, ps2: 35, ps3: 41, pdf: 36, svg: 1, svg11: 8, image: 7.

and when compiling pango, the step
./configure
says  
.........
checking for CAIRO... yes
checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
configure: Disabling cairo support
.........

I don't know if there's conection between this error messages and ask and

thanks very much any help someone could give me to compile gtk+ susccesfully.

Thanks in advance

p.s.: I'm using Debian Gnu/Linux 4.0 -(2.6.18-6-amd64)