sample program compilation error

["Madan Ankapura" <ankapura gmail com>]

 [me localhost code]$ g++ simple.cc -o simple `pkg-config gtkmm-2.4 --cflags --libs`
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h: In function 'void std::_Destroy(_ForwardIterator, _ForwardIterator)':
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h:150: error: expected nested-name-specifier before 'iterator_traits'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h:150: error: expected initializer before '<' token
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h:152: error: '_Value_type' was not declared in this scope
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h:152: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_construct.h:153: error: invalid type in declaration before ';' token
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0/../../../../include/c++/4.1.0/bits/stl_uninitialized.h: In function '_ForwardIterator std::__uninitialized_copy_aux(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, _ForwardIterator, __true_type)':
........and whole bunch of errors...............

I am trying to compile the simple program and getting this error .. any insight will help .. 

fyi, i have all the libs at the right places .. and g++ ouput for further information .. 
[me localhost ~]$ pkg-config gtkmm-2.4 --cflags --libs
-I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-
1.4 -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++ -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-
1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/atk-1.0  -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lpangomm-1.4 -lglibmm-2.4 -lsigc-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0
 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
[me localhost ~]$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-
1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --with-cpu=generic --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)

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