/usr/local/lib/libgdbm.la not found 0.21.2

[Guy Rouillier <guy-rouillier speakeasy net>]

I found the following in the archives:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2002-July/msg00130.html

I'm still having this problem building the latest on Mandrake 9.0.  gcc 
version is 3.2.  I'm going to try the solution discussed here, i.e., 
making a symlink to /usr/lib, where this lib actually exists.