Installing The Gimp 1.3.22 on Redhat Linux 8.0

Retrieved the gimp-1.3.22.tar.gz file from http://www.gimp.org/download.html

Unzipped it under /usr/local/src

./configure fails:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.
[root@crisium gimp-1.3.22]#

Retrieved glib-2.2.3.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/

./configure fails:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure: error: *** pkg-config too old; version 0.14 or better required.

Found the latest version of pkgconfig here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/PLD/dists/ra/PLD/i386/PLD/RPMS/pkgconfig-0.14.0-1.i386.html
Downloaded the .rpm file and did rpm -U

Continued with 'make' for glib-2.2.3

Decided to try the RPM instead: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ASP/contribs/9/i386/glib2-2.2.3-1.1.i386.html

rpm -U wouldn't work (dependency) tried rpm -i instead. Some conflicts with 2.0.6.
Used --force. It may never work again.

Where was I? Back to gimp-1.3.22 to try to ./configure again
Nope, still fails on GLIB -> 2.2.0

Okay, try compiling glib-2.2.3 from source

configure/make/make install worked, but gimp-1.3.22 still won't configure.

How do I get gimp-1.3.22 to "see" the new version of GLIB?