strange, I would try from scratch again with a fresh install.

not sure if this will help anyone, but just incase
i ran into the same error youve all had with the blah blah cannot find imlib etc etc. and after reading through the configure log, i noticed that imlib-config was calling for something called lungif (used to be provided by LZW and their patent has expired, and now weve got giflib)
in short, all i had to do (other than spend hours researching and trying to break my keyboard with my head) was edit the imlib-config and replace -lungif with -giflib (if you do this be sure to save a backup) in one of the first few lines and everything worked out great. hope someone finds this useful.

Hi Guys, thought this might help shed some light on the situation. I'm running Redhat Fedora 3 with ALL the required packages installed as rpm including the devel packages. I was trying to compile the traydock and was getting SIMILAR error messages. It would tell me that imlib was found, but the run-time linker could not RUN the test program. SO i read the log (look at the bold section):

configure:2438: checking for imlib-config
configure:2456: found /usr/local/bin/imlib-config
configure:2469: result: /usr/local/bin/imlib-config
configure:2477: checking for IMLIB - version >= 1.8.2
configure:2566: gcc -pipe -o conftest -fPIC -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -lImlib -ljpeg -ltiff -lungif -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 >&5
configure:2569: $? = 0
configure:2571: ./conftest
./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib.so.1 : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
configure:2574: $? = 127
configure: program exited with status 127
configure: failed program was:
| #line 2501 "configure"

So I went looking in my /usr/lib directory. It turned out that there was a file (sym link) called libImlib.so.11 so I found out what it pointed to (libImlib.so.11.0.0)! So I created another symlink of libImlib.so.11.0.0 and called it libImlib.so.1 .... Guess what?!! IT WORKED!
Try and see if that helps anything!

If you on SuSE 9.2 or more, pay close attention to this info from zipur, it solved it for me. Make sure you have all the packages installed! Ignore the imlib errors if you know you've got the imlib package and devel counterpart installed properly. I used ./configure --with-imlib-prefix=/opt/gnome as thats where YAST put the imlib stuff when installed from rpm. Use as root, then to find imlib-config. Mine was in /opt/gnome/bin. Skip the /bin part as the config adds this itself. Worked for me on SuSE 9.3. Hopefully it helps.

A I missing something, or is there no traydock option with the updated cvs of amsn? I wanted the latest cvs for the webcam capabilities, but lost the traydock option. If it is not there for somereason, I can work on adding it myself, but I thought I'd get a second opinion first.

I had the same problem with configuring the traydock because of Imlib. I had it installed and all but nada. Anyway found a way to go through it.
I had the tcl/tk and imlib 1.9 and imlib-devel installed before that.
Make sure you close amsn.
In a shell type:

ksystraycmd /folder_name/amsn/amsn

this should make you stop looking for that imlib traydock whatever thing.
This works for mandriva.. i don't know for the others dist. I'm using mandriva powerpack.