gnorpm 0.95.1 compiling

[Rich Rudnick <nickrud citlink net>]

While trying to compile gnorpm 0.95.1, configure returned the following:

checking for Fopen in -lrpmio... no
checking for rpmRunTransactions in -lrpm... no
checking for rpmdbFindByTriggeredBy in -lrpm... no
checking for rpmdbOpen in -lrpm... no
configure: error: can't find librpm (usually in rpm-devel package)

checking my system, I found:

root: /usr/src/tars/gnorpm-0.95.1 $ rpm -q rpm-devel
rpm-devel-3.0.4-0.12mdk

root: /usr/src/tars/gnorpm-0.95.1 $ l /usr/lib/librpm*
/usr/lib/librpm.a          /usr/lib/librpmbuild.a
/usr/lib/librpm.la*        /usr/lib/librpmbuild.la*
/usr/lib/librpm.so@        /usr/lib/librpmbuild.so@
/usr/lib/librpm.so.0@      /usr/lib/librpmbuild.so.0@
/usr/lib/librpm.so.0.0.0*  /usr/lib/librpmbuild.so.0.0.0*

Not being a programmer, I'm asking for pointers.  PLEASE don't
tell me I need rpm 4! (unless it's true, of course)