If you can build from source then you are probably more developer than user anyway.
This isn't actually so big problem under Redhat 9 or Redhat 7.3 with Ximian Desktop 2.
1. Have proper devel rpms installed. 2. ./configure && make 3. su - 4. cd ... 5. make install
It doesn't seem so hard to me. But I can say that I wouldn't try to build all the dependency libraries by hand esp. because of the autoconf, libtool upgrade needed.
Tom Mraz
