'configure' problems with gnucash 1.6.5

[Roger Rasmussen]

I'm having a heck of a time trying to get even the configure script to run

I get the following error:
checking for main in -lgal... Unknown library `gal'
no
configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log 
for more info.

But I currently have many versions of libgal installed.  What is the 
problem?  It should be safe to have several version on my box as long as 
the links are set correctly, shouldn't it?

[root@penguin lib]# ls -la /usr/lib/libgal*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jan 22 22:11 libgal.so -> 
libgal.so.19.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jan 19 11:17 libgal.so.11 -> 
libgal.so.11.0.2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3178278 Aug 27 12:53 libgal.so.11.0.2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 22 22:56 libgal.so.12 -> 
libgal.so.12.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3289966 Sep 22 11:36 libgal.so.12.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 22 22:56 libgal.so.13 -> 
libgal.so.13.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3295328 Oct  2 10:15 libgal.so.13.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 22 22:56 libgal.so.14 -> 
libgal.so.14.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3322530 Oct 12 09:59 libgal.so.14.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 22 22:36 libgal.so.18 -> 
libgal.so.18.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3371799 Nov 16 17:30 libgal.so.18.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jan 13 17:40 libgal.so.19 -> 
libgal.so.19.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3393192 Dec 19 03:32 libgal.so.19.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct 26 04:33 libgal.so.3 -> 
libgal.so.3.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       582015 Mar  8  2001 libgal.so.3.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Dec 22 22:53 libgal.so.6 -> 
libgal.so.6.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2788306 Apr 21  2001 libgal.so.6.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Jan 19 08:25 libgal.so.7 -> 
libgal.so.7.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3082567 May 29  2001 libgal.so.7.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Jan 19 11:18 libgal.so.8 -> 
libgal.so.8.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3131040 Jul 18  2001 libgal.so.8.0.1


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