--- mjpegtools-1.9.0rc3/configure.ac.ark	2008-02-20 20:38:04.000000000 +0100
+++ mjpegtools-1.9.0rc3/configure.ac	2008-02-20 20:38:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -268,7 +268,8 @@
 dnl not be a problem on recent distributions).
 dnl   (defines GTK_CFLAGS and GTK_LIBS)
 dnl ********************************************************************
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0], have_gtk="true", have_gtk="false")
+dnl However, gtk is abysmal junk and we don't want it...
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0], have_gtk="false", have_gtk="false")
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, test x$have_gtk = xtrue)
 
 dnl ********************************************************************