That's sad

. Anjuta is a great editor and, when programming in gtk it turns into the meat and potatoes of your gtk development

. I'd suggest you to try installing the binaries. I'm not sure what distribution you are using to learn gtk: If it's SuSE, anjuta is available through their ftp (I've just checked), so if you configure your YaST to install packages from an FTP, it should install flawlessly including the dependencies. Here is an example of how to configure YaST that way:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...89#post1087289
the very same could be achieved with Redhat and apt-rpm I suppose. I went to Anjuta's homepage and they in fact have binaries for Redhat (which also stands on your profile). Even though I love compiling things from source, I'd give the binaries a shot

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There's also Eclipse, a great IDE written in Java and it can compile C using a plugin. It looks awesome, but Anjuta is a gnome application, written in gtk to compile c code, so it fits so well that I found it worthy using
Regards and good luck!