RH6 libs missing?

[Tom Walsh]

Hello,

    I need a clue. It appears that RH6 doesn't have the 'libgif.a',
'libjpeg.a', 'libtiff.a', and 'libgdbm.a' libraries. So I looked around,
found some Suse libs and used the aout libs for gdbm, jpeg, & tiff.

* The '-lgdbm missing' error went away by adding the Suse libgdbm.a to
the libs tree.

* The '-lgiff giflib30 missing' went away by 'ln -s /usr/lib/libgif.so.4
/usr/lib/libgif.so'.

* The '-ljpeg missing' gets wierd by having configure reporting it found
a libjpeg.a when there is NO such file on the system! This occurred
after 'ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so'.

* The tiff library is hopeless. There is absolutely no way I can get
configure to reconize that I really really did feed it a version 3.4
tiff library!

    The configure script says that I need to install the kdesupport to
resolve the missing libraries, however, the missing libraries are not
located in kdesupport.

    Has anyone with the RH6 system resolved these missing libs?

TIA

Tom