Forgive if this is the wrong venue, but I have been unable to get
gnome-libs to compile since gnome-libs-1.0.16 one any of the three
1.4.2 i386 systems I have tried.

Different failure reasons each subsequent version, but for
gnome-libs-1.2.3 :

cc -O2 -Wall -Wunused -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -o .libs/zterm zterm.o
-L.libs -lzvt -lz -lm -lutil -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib
-Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk
-L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -lgmodule -lglib -lintl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgdk_imlib -ljpeg -ltiff -lungif -lpng -lz -lm
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -lgmodule -lglib
-lintl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -L../support/.libs -lgnomesupport -lz -lm -lintl
-lz -lm -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib
zterm.o: Undefined symbol `_zvt_term_match_check' referenced from text segment
zterm.o: Undefined symbol `_zvt_term_match_add' referenced from text segment
zterm.o: Undefined symbol `_zvt_term_match_add' referenced from text segment
zterm.o: Undefined symbol `_zvt_term_match_add' referenced from text segment
zterm.o: Undefined symbol `_zvt_term_match_add' referenced from text segment
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [zterm] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/pkgsrc/x11/gnome-libs/work/gnome-libs-1.2.3/zvt'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/pkgsrc/x11/gnome-libs/work/gnome-libs-1.2.3'
gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
*** Error code 2