Wireshark GTK Compilation error

I am working to port wireshark(1.6.4) to iOS, and a am getting a GTK compilation error when running the configure script. It seems that the GTK version is undetermined as justified by these lines in the config.log file

configure:19423: gcc -o conftest -no-cpp-precomp -D_U_="__attribute__((unused))" -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wpointer-arith -Wno-pointer-sign -Wcast-align -Wformat-security -I/usr/local/include   -I/usr/local/include -Wl,-search_paths_first  -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c   >&5
Undefined symbols:
  "_gtk_micro_version", referenced from:
      _gtk_micro_version$non_lazy_ptr in ccxkEWm4.o
  "_gtk_major_version", referenced from:
      _gtk_major_version$non_lazy_ptr in ccxkEWm4.o
  "_gtk_minor_version", referenced from:
      _gtk_minor_version$non_lazy_ptr in ccxkEWm4.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Full config.log can be found at: http://ininjas.com/trcx/config.log

The GTK developers said this is because wireshark is not using "PKG_CHECK_MODULES()" but instead "AM_PATH_GTK()". My question is twofold:

1) How could I bypass this error? For some reason the configure script does not seem to recognize the --disable-gtktest flag. I do not think this is the way to go as wireshark it's self may reference these variables. What would be the best way to patch this?

2) What is the best way to get this updated for future releases to use PKG_CHECK_MODULES(). The GTK developers seemed to infer that this is the officially supported way to check the GTK version.

Any advice is appreciated.