MapServer4.6 install:can't find gd.h and jpeg

[ABE Water Research Account]

Hi, all,
   I 've spent three days worth of time to get all the latest version of 
tools for MS4.6 and compiled/install them with no error and updated 
LD_LIB... env, then MapServer configure kept saying it can't find my
gd.h and libgd... and neither can it find jpeglib.h and libjpeg.*.

   Due to system restriction, we like to install on local user account, you 
know, not the /usr/local defaul locations, and I have the bin/ lib/ 
include/ share/ etc all set up nicely and all the files are there...

so I configure it like:

./configure   --prefix=$HOME \
               --enable-debug \
               --with-sde=/home/water/a/watergen/lib/sde/sdeexe83 \
               --with-sde-version=83 \
               --with-zlib==/home/water/a/watergen/lib \
               --with-freetype=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/freetype-config \
               --with-jpeg=/home/water/a/watergen/lib \
               --with-png=/home/water/a/watergen/lib \
               --with-ogr=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/gdal-config \
               --with-gdal=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/gdal-config \
               --with-pdf=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/pdflib-config \
               --with-tiff=/home/water/a/watergen/lib \
               --with-curl-config=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/curl-config \
               --with-proj=/home/water/a/watergen/lib \
               --with-gd=/home/water/a/watergen/bin/gdlib-config \
               --with-threads

and I get back:

configure: checking where Zlib is installed...
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... yes
         using libz from system libs.
configure: checking where PNG is installed...
         using libpng from -L/home/water/a/watergen/lib -lpng
configure: checking whether we should include JPEG support...
         using libjpeg from system -L/home/water/a/watergen/lib -ljpeg
configure: checking where libXpm is installed...
checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... yes
         using libXpm from system libs.
configure: checking where libiconv is installed...
checking for iconv_open in -lc... yes
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... yes
         using libiconv from system libs.
         libiconv found. Enabling internationalization (-DUSE_ICONV)
configure: checking for GD 2.0.16 or higher...
checking for gdFontCacheSetup in -lgd... no
configure: checking whether GD needs libiconv...
checking for gdFontCacheSetup in -lgd... no
configure: error: Could not find gd.h or libgd.a/libgd.so in 
/home/danpatch/a/watergen/bin/gdlib-config.  Make sure GD 2.0.16 or higher 
is compiled before calling configure. You may also get this error if you 
didn't specify the appropriate location for one of GD's dependencies 
(freetype, libpng, libjpeg or libiconv).


our system specs:
Machine hardware:   sun4u
OS version:         5.8
Processor type:     sparc
Hardware:           SUNW,Ultra-4

   Then when our collected hair on our heads all pulled out, I just 
configure it without any --with, it passed. So I guess this new version or 
previous version(s) just need to get things from default places.
   I still hold out hope that we can still put things locally, please let 
us know any suggestions,
   Best,
   Baldy