install; readline error with 7.3.4

On my RH 9.0 linux system when ./configuring 7.3.4 I get an error about 
not finding the readline libs, however both the readline and 
readline-devel rpms are installed:

# rpm -qa | grep readline
readline-4.3-5
readline-devel-4.3-5

What library/rpm am I missing?

The config.log file has this to say:

configure:5786: result: no
configure:5800: checking for readline
configure:5837: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lreadline -lcrypt 
-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lbsd  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so: 
undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Thanks,

Jean-Christian Imbeault