New gnome with slackware problem

[joshua his house in wauconda il us]

Ok, I took your advise and removed everything and reinstalled it. I surpased the first
error, but now I get this error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnome/gnome-libs-0.30/gtk-xmhtml'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall   -o htmltest  test.o ../gtk-xmhtml/libgtkxmhtml.la -lXpm  -lpng -lz -lz -lSM -lICE -L/usr/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm ../intl/libintl.a -lm 
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/htmltest test.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/gnome/lib ../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so -lXpm -lpng -lz -lz -lSM -lICE -L/usr/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm ../intl/libintl.a -lm
../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `uncompress'
../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `compress'
make[2]: *** [htmltest] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gnome/gnome-libs-0.30/gtk-xmhtml'

Thanks for your help,
Joshua