CentOS - Dec 2007 - ./configure perfparse -> "configure: error: required library libgd unusable"

I recently had a problem with the configure script from perfparse running
properly so that I could 'make install' it to work with Nagios 2.10 on
latest CentOS 4.x + RPMForge (see
http://readlist.com/lists/centos.org/centos/5/28966.html). Thinking it was a
problem that was a result of "yum remove gd", I formatted the box and
reinstalled everything.
Now, oddly, I still have the same problem, and unlike before (before running
"yum remove gd"), I cannot configure it without getting the following
error:

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"checking for gdlib-config... /usr/bin/gdlib-config
checking for gdMalloc in -lgd... no
configure: error: required library libgd unusable.
Install required and dependent files and rerun configure.
See config.log or FAQs for details."
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The part of the config.log which looks relevant to the problem is the
following:


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| /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| char gdMalloc ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| gdMalloc ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:26962: result: no
configure:26974: error: required library libgd unusable.
Install required and dependent files and rerun configure.
See config.log or FAQs for details.
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and in the configure script, this pertains to the error as well

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  LIBS="-lgd $LIBS"

else
  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: required library libgd unusable.
Install required and dependent files and rerun configure.
See config.log or FAQs for details." >&5
echo "$as_me: error: required library libgd unusable.
Install required and dependent files and rerun configure.
See config.log or FAQs for details." >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi

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Any suggestions?  This was working (in that I could ./configure, just not
"make && make install") before I removed gd, and once I
formatted and
reinstalled everything fresh, none of it works. Any help in the right
direction would be greatly appreciated.
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Rogelio wrote:
> problem that was a result of "yum remove gd", I formatted the box
and
> reinstalled everything.
> "checking for gdlib-config... /usr/bin/gdlib-config
> checking for gdMalloc in -lgd... no
/usr/bin/gdlib-config is owned by package: gd-devel

Install that with yum, and it should work as to _that_ test.

-- Russ Herrold