Gtk Hell!
 

Ok, this is the problem.

I downloaded all the necesary gtk files...
glib, pango, atk, gtk, pkgconfig etc.

I unzipped/gunzipped/bunzipped them all
cd'd to glib-2.6.0
./configure
make
make install
mkdir /usr/include/glib
cd glib
cp *h /usr/include/glib
cd ..
<repeat for all the other header files>
cd ..
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cd pango-x-x-x
./configure
make

After doing all that, it gives me errors.
libtool: link: cannnot find library "..//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/<somelibrary>"

The problems is in the makefiles or something.
If you nano/pico/vi/whatever a makefile,

GLIB_CFLAGS = -pthread -I$(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/./gmodule -I$(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0 -I$($GLIB_GENMARSHAL = $(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/gobject/glib-genmarshal
GLIB_LIBS = $(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/glib/libglib-2.0.la $(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/gobject/l$GLIB_MKENUMS = $(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/./gobject/glib-mkenums
GOBJECT_QUERY = $(top_builddir)//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/gobject/gobject-query

It has $(top_builddir) evaluating to ".."

So it looks for the library ..//usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/<somelibrary> and returns an error when it should be doing just /usr/local/src/glib-2.6.0/<somelibrary> and being happy with all its libraries. :-)
I refuse to edit it, there are hundreds of makefiles I would have to edit for gtk and atk. I edited them all for pango and removed the $(top_builddir) and it worked so I know it is this. Any clues?
Happy holidays.

Libtool gives me that all the time but it doesn't mean that it's actually a problem. It's just a libtool warning. It don't mean nothing.

No, its a problem. It didn't compile the library, and it stopped running the makefile... I don't think you read your error messages correctly if a library failed to build it would stop compiling and you would have problems.

hi this is a mistake i have seen people make before
when you do
"make install"
everything you need is installed including the header files libtool files .pc file etc
just delete the build directory when you are done

i don't know what prefix you used for install ?
the files are already installed in [prefix]/include/glib-2.0
and set
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=[prefix]/lib/pkgconfig

if you don't set --prefix= then default is /usr/local so you don't overwrite things in prefix=/usr

I've tried the default, and /usr... neither worked... clues?
Btw, pango and friends look for header files in /usr/include/
Ex, /usr/include/glib.h
Not /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h
Odd...

I'm well aware of what an error message looks like. It would help if we could see yours. Copy and paste the few lines before it says "error", as well as the error message itself.