barnyard config error

[Guy Witney Krocker <gwkrocker () shaw ca>]

rh9 -mysql- snort- acid installed as per Patrick Harpers excellent install
doc on snort web site
trying to hook in barnyard
using
./configure --enable-mysql --with-mysql-libraries=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql
 --with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql

> **********************************************
> ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library
> checked in the following places
> /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql
> **********************************************

libmysqlclient.so is actually in this location yet the configure fails

searched the archives...
ideas?

Guy Witney Krocker
" What's another word for Thesaurus?" Stephen Wright