Compiling gnucash on SuSE 9.3 - 64 bit architecture

[Des Dougan]

I recently bought a new PC, which has an AMD Sempron chip. The SuSE 9.3
installation identified it as having an x86_64 architecture and
installed successfully. As I had recently compiled gnucash 1.8.11 on my
old box, I also wanted to do the same on the new. However, although I
have followed Thomas Spahni and CS's instructions, and have installed
the various RPMs, when I try to compile gnucash, the configure fails
with:

checking for main in -lgal... no
configure: error: gal library not found. See the README and config.log
for more info.

# rpm -qa | grep gal
gal2-2.4.1-3.1
gal-devel-0.24-221
gal-0.24-221


I'm assuming this is related to the architecture, but have no clue why
it worked on my 32 bit box and won't here. I'd appreciate any
thoughts...

Thanks,

Des
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