Problem compiling gnuplot pre-3.6, pl.325,328

[adavis@saipan.com]

I have not been able to cleanly compile recent gnuplot beta releases.
Mainly, the autoconfigure script "./configure", does not see "-lvga".  Now I
assume that the svga library is present, since I have installed 

        svgalib1-bin 1.2.10-3
	svgalib1-dev 1.2.10-3
	svgalib1     1.2.10-3
	
My system is mainly debian, and I have tried to keep the libraries
reasonably up to date.  
	
There are a number of complications, beyond my knowledge.  Is there
something I have to do to make the autoconfigure script see "-lvga"?  

One other problem, incidentally, possibly a Debian specific, is that the
gnuplot command "set locale ..." causes a core dump.

Thank you for any help on this.

Alan Davis

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