[Inkscape-devel] configure help

I feel like this is a stupid question but I'm stuck.

Yesterday I nuked sid and installed ubuntu. I compiled libgc and installed it into /usr/local. I checked and the files are infact in /usr/local/lib. but configure is unable to find libgc. How can I tell configure where it is? I try running configure with "LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib ./configure" and I get a message like "C compiler cannot create executables".

Aaron Spike