determine requierments for building XEmacs: How To?

I have been trying to build XEmacs on my SuSE 8 system using the same ./configure SuSE used when they built the XEmacs 21.4.8 for the distribution. I'm getting arguments from ./configure telling me: checking for X11 graphics libraries checking for the Athena widgets checking for threeDClassRec in -lXaw3d... no checking for threeDClassRec in -lXaw... no configure: warning: Could not find a 3d Athena widget library that looked like Xaw3d. checking for X11/Xaw3d/XawInit.h... yes checking for X11/Xaw3d/ThreeD.h... yes checking for Xm/Xm.h... yes checking for XmStringFree in -lXm... no Error: Could not find a suitable Athena library to build with. I'm assuming this means I am trying to use a version of Xaw3d which XEmacs doesn't like. How do I determine what XEmacs *does* like? I took out the athena stuff and hit the same kind of thing with GNU DBM checking for database support checking for ndbm.h... yes checking for dbm_open in -lgdbm... no Error: Required GNU DBM support cannot be provided. Since it seems to find the header file, but not the particular string, that indicates to me there is some kind of a version conflict. I've always found such issues a frustrating part of working with Open Source. For years I've been under the impression that I would learn the secret to avioding such situations. I'm _sure_ there is a place where I can find the information as to what versions of packages I should be using, right? -- STH