The problem was really the mysql header files which I could not get coz I dont know what suse calls them, I found this url:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/how-to-get-devel-rpms-in-11.1-704328/

Cheers
TheMburu

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:12 PM, David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> wrote:
How many of you have have succesfully installed the zabbix monitoring tool. No matter what I do im always getting this:
configure: error: MySQL library not found


I did install zabbix a few weeks back when i was testing monitoring tools and someone suggested it, the Zabbix forums are a good place to start for such errors

I googled your error and found this http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7880

Check whether mysql-devel is installed


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