Trouble with 'make' command Pango 1.24.4 PLEASE HELP

[Chris Marshall <marshalc carleton edu>]

The platform is ScientificLinux.

I am trying to build GTK+, and so I need to first build Pango with Cairo support.  I have installed Cairo version 1.8.8, and the ./configure of Pango works fine.  At the end I get
configuration:
       backends: Cairo FreeType X

When I run 'make', I get a slew of errors that all begin with fribidi.c, and most of which are
fribidi.c:<line number>: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Finally, my error output is as follows:

make[4]: ***[fribidi.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/mydirectory/pango-1.24.4/pango/mini-fribidi'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/mydirectory/pango-1.24.4/pango'
make[2]: ***[all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/mydirectory/pango-1.24.4/pango'
make[1]: ***[all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mydirectory/pango-1.24.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any experience with this type of error?  Is there a problem with my Glib or some other support package?  Any ideas are greatly appreciated, as I can not seem to figure this one out.

Thanks,
Chris