On 2008 Sep 20, at 12:57, Donnie Jones wrote:
checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking OpenGL/gl.h usability... no
checking OpenGL/gl.h presence... no
checking for OpenGL/gl.h... no
checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
checking for GL/glu.h... yes
checking OpenGL/glu.h usability... no
checking OpenGL/glu.h presence... no
checking for OpenGL/glu.h... no

That looks like to me that the gl.h and glu.h header files were found and are usable (in some cases).  I am able to build

Yes, you have the header.  But it says nothing about whether -lGLU was found, and that's where your problems are.
Also, that's configure output, not config.log output (which has a transcript of the tests, not just the summary).

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