pkg-config 'not there' on RedHat 9
 

I've got Red Hat 9 and I'm running Gnome. I tried to install the new 2.0.0 release of GIMP from source, using the configure file. I got these errors

***A new enough version of pkg-config was not found
***See (site)freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig
configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See file 'INSTALL' for help

So, I looked at the INSTALL file, and it didn't say anything about GLIB, but it did say that it required some 3rd-party libraries, so I presume it is one of them. Not really a big issue (I hope).

My main problem is this. I went to the site and downloaded the newest version of pkg-config and ran its configure file. I got no errors there. (Version 0.15.0). Then I tried re-running GIMP's configure and got the same errors again. No I DO have pkg-config, and I've had this problem when trying to install other programs. Could someone please tell me why it can't see pkg-config and anything I can do to fix this problem?

(if someone has a link to where I can download GLIB that would be handy too)

what do you get if you run "pkg-config --version" ? it doesn't say it can't find it, it says it's too old, so try an upgrade if possible.

Okay. I updated to pkg-config version 0.15.0, and now I don't get that error.

Now I get

***Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
***The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the exact error that occured.
***This usual means that GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help

and I am compleatly lost.

I probably look realy stupid... oh well... I'm just starting.