LinuxQuestions.org - GTK+ make errors SuSe 9

I'm trying to install GIMP on my SuSe 9 (64-bit) machine for the simple reason that I'm such a newb, I haven't really installed anything...ever. GTK looked easy enough and with simple enough instructions to complete (ie tar it, unzip it, ./config it, make it, install it). Well....this is what I'm getting...and I did a quick search of the forums and an extensive search of google...still no luck...so I ask you this...I run ./configure without any problems...it runs flawless...when I run the make command, after a good little while (I'd say 3-5 minutes) I get these errors.

./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_get_integer'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_load_from_file'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_set_main_gro
up'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_group_set_parse_hook
s'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_filename_display_basename'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_rename'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_lstat'
/root/gtk+-2.6.0/gdk/.libs/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_unsetenv
'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_set_help_ena
bled'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_parse'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_mkdir'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_object_interface_find_prope
rty'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_add_group'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_open'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_type_instance_get_private'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_completion_complete_utf8'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_free'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_new'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_set_ignore_u
nknown_options'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_param_spec_get_redirect_tar
get'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_object_class_override_prope
rty'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_get_locale_string'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_get_integer_list'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_type_class_add_private'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_stat'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_object_interface_install_pr
operty'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_get_string'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_assert_warning'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_group_set_translatio
n_domain'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_get_string_list'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_key_file_set_list_separator
'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_strv_get_type'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_get_user_data_dir'
../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_filename_dis
play_name'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_printf_escaped'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_group_new'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_strip_context'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_uri_list_extract_uris'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_new'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_value_take_string'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_get_system_data_dirs'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_strv_length'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_unlink'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_markup_vprintf_escaped'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_free'
/usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so: undefined reference to `g_unichar_get_mirror_cha r'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_fopen'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_context_add_main_ent ries'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_option_group_add_entries'
./.libs/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_return_if_fail_warning'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [gtk-query-immodules-2.0] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk+-2.6.0/gtk'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk+-2.6.0/gtk'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk+-2.6.0/gtk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gtk+-2.6.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

any ideas?

Kevin

(edit to add the important 64-bit info)