configure can't find SDL.h

[meton_magis]

I am an experienced linux user, using Fedora 8. I have tried compiling wesnoth from source, but it fails at the checking for SDL headers part. I have compiled plenty of software, and have even written some little stuff with SDL. However, i can't quite make out why it is failing. here is some stuff i think would be useful.

Fedora 8 X86_64 OS.
i have used the package manager yum to install ALL SDL devel files (image, ttf, mixer, net, and all others listed.)

$ locate SDL.h
/usr/include/SDL/SDL.h

I also see the headers for image, mixer, ttf, net, and the others with $locate SDL | grep SDL.*\.h$.
I can't for the life of me figure out why it would fail. I've compiled other apps that require SDL, so i dont know why this one fails.

$./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... libraries /usr/lib64, headers
checking whether -R must be followed by a space... neither works
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... no
checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... yes
checking for pngmeta... no
checking for sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config
checking for fribidi-config... /usr/bin/fribidi-config
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking Python version and location... /usr/bin/python, 2.5, /usr
checking whether Python is at least 2.4... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking Python.h usability... yes
checking Python.h presence... yes
checking for Python.h... yes
checking for Py_Finalize in -lpython2.5... yes
checking for libpng-config... /usr/bin/libpng-config
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.7... yes
checking for po4a... no
checking for asciidoc... no
checking for dos2unix... /usr/bin/dos2unix
checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking for libtool... /usr/bin/libtool
checking for IMG_Load in -lSDL_image... yes
checking for Mix_OpenAudio in -lSDL_mixer... yes
checking for SDLNet_Init in -lSDL_net... yes
checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... no
checking for sys/ndir.h that defines DIR... no
checking for sys/dir.h that defines DIR... no
checking for ndir.h that defines DIR... no
checking for library containing opendir... no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking SDL.h usability... no
checking SDL.h presence... no
checking for SDL.h... no
configure: error: *** SDL include files not found!
You should install SDL development package.


any help is appreciated.
EDIT: BTW, version is 1.4.2

[Soliton]

Post config.log.

[meton_magis]

i attached my config.log. i renamed it to config.txt because .log wasn't allowed

[Soliton]

Check the permissions of /usr/include/SDL/ (post the output of 'ls -l /usr/include/SDL/SDL.h').

[meton_magis]

both the directory and all the files in it (/sur/include/SDL) are all 644. also i even tried ./configure as root and same error. This doesn't make any sense to me .....

[loonycyborg]

configure:11709: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/freetype2 -I -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:58:17: error: SDL.h: No such file or directory

Lone -I flag looks fishy to me..

According to config.log it was added by freetype-config, so try upgrading freetype.