Having trouble compiling GTK+ 2.
 

I'm mightily disappointed in Novell for not having this critical dependency for hundreds upon hundreds of programs in the base package.

Secondly, I can't compile this. I've tried rpms, tarballs of both the .gz and .bz2 flavors, and I'm not getting anywhere. I have glib, but when I try to compile Cairo, it whines about not being able to find fontconfig and freetype:

using CFLAGS:
-I/usr/local/include/libpng12 -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpacked -Wswitch-enum -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Winit-self -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wold-style-definition -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-attributes -Wno-long-long -Winline -fno-strict-aliasing

configure: error: Cairo requires at least one font backend.
Please install freetype and fontconfig, then try again:
http://freetype.org/ http://fontconfig.org/

both of which are installed in /usr/local/lib. I've gotten errors about not being able to find pkg-config, which is really silly because it's also in /usr/local/lib.

I don't even know where to start! I can't even compile Pidgin. I don't know the first thing about redirecting things to show them where to look, and the rpm man page is honestly Greek to me. Any advice would be adored.

Try doing
After that compile your application.