Thanks for your reply and suggestion, William. I was trying to compile both on the Mac (10.4.4) and Linux (RHEL WS3). On the mac, I am using both your graphicslibs and gislibs (thanks!). I had previously changed the configure script replacing all the *.a to *.la and all the *.so to *.dylib as well as commenting out the lib64 checks.
I subsequently changed the *.la references to *.dylib, but that didn't seem to fix the problem. Pretty slick regexp for bbedit you provided though! -- john
