Ok, have gotten the issue with glib straightened out. Had to move glibconfig from where it was installed from the tarbal and place it in /usr/local/lib/glib-2.2(mkdir glib-2.2). Adjusted the PKG_CONFIG_PATH and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. All the dependents loaded now without complaining. BUT, I load jpeg, pnu, and the other stuff and now GTK+2.2.2 gives me checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... no configure: WARNING: *** JPEG loader will not be built (JPEG library not found) *** configure: error: *** Checks for JPEG loader failed. You can build without it by passing *** --without-libjpeg to configure but some programs using GTK+ may *** not work properly . I know that something is not right in GTK+ because: 1. I was geting the tiff not found error in the beginning util I remembered that had not loaded all of the dependents because of glib. Got those loaded and then this error came up. 2. When I go to "make" GTK+2.2.2 I get '[root@cci gtk+-2.2.2]# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.'. The ./configure command goes well except the issue listed in 1, so I know that there should be make file information. Looked in the directory and there are "Make..." files there. Can someone please help.