how I installed a development environment

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks verizon net>]

Hi,

I wanted to thank everyone, and report that I succeeded in setting up the 
environment that I wanted.

It simply required working step by step, with close attention to the output of 
all the make install output about library locations.

Thus as one builds the all the modules for gtm, cairo, atk etc, in order,
1) it is essential to add all the library module directories that are 
_subdirectores_ of the 
${prefix}/lib
directory to the variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

2) similarly it is important to have the 
PATH variable augmented by 
${prefix}/bin for one of the libraries.

3) as well as the correct
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig

Then all compiled and worked fine. 

thanks,

Mitchell