Tiger Shapefile tiling problem

[Jeff Portwine]

I tried doing the complile, but as expected it just blows up during the
./configure phase and I just can't get anywhere with it.   I think mapserver
is one of the most difficult to build programs i've dealt with.   I never
was able to get it to compile originally, and I was very happy when I found
the debian package that I could install mapserver with.

Now, I know that i have all the required packages installed because when I
installed the debian package it updated all of the various libraries that
mapserver requires.    But when I try to do  ./configure it can't find any
of them.    It looks to me like just about every library mapserver is
complaining about is in /usr/lib but even when I try adding configure
options like --with-gd=/usr  or --with-gd=/usr/lib  it still can't find the
required libraries.... I just don't get it.

libgd.so isn't hte only one it can't find... it can't find freetype, zlib,
png, jpeg, or xpm either... here is a copy of the configure errors...

configure: checking where FreeType 2.x is installed...
checking for FT_Init_FreeType in -lfreetype... no
        freetype-config or libfreetype cannot be found, possibly needed for
GD
configure: checking where Zlib is installed...
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... no
        Zlib (libz) library cannot be found, possibly needed for GD
configure: checking where PNG is installed...
checking for png_init_io in -lpng... no
        PNG (libpng) library cannot be found, possibly needed for GD
configure: checking whether we should include JPEG support...
checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... no
        libjpeg not found. JPEG support not included, possibly needed for
GD.
configure: checking where libXpm is installed...
checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... no
        XPM (libXpm) library cannot be found, possibly needed for GD
configure: checking where libiconv is installed...
checking for iconv_open in -lc... yes
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
        using libiconv from system libs.
        libiconv found. Enabling internationalization (-DUSE_ICONV)
configure: checking for GD 2.0.12 or higher...
checking for gdImageSetAntiAliased in -lgd... yes
checking for gdImageSetAntiAliased in -lgd... (cached) yes
configure: error: Could not find gd.h or libgd.a/libgd.so in /usr/local.
Make sure GD 2.0.12 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).


This is the output with no configure options... the only thing that changes
if i put in things like --with-gd=/usr or --with-freetype=/usr, etc, is that
it says it can't find things in /usr instead of being unable to find them in
/usr/local.

If anybody has any clues on how to get this working please let me know.
All this headache just for one utility... :\

-Jeff