Hi, Raffaele,
No library name is needed in the path-to-gdal, so only '/usr/lib' must
appear instead of the last two lines.
If you compiled from source using only ./configure without options and
libgdal comes as debian package you need to install libgdal-1.3.2-dev
(in order to get library headers, *.h files) and use --with-gdal option
(look at './configure --help' ).
Thats the thing , i had no -dev package installed.
BUT: My configure script runs through with some hints of finding no gdal
but gives at the end
GDAL-Support: YES !
I guess its an bug in the configure script.
more detailed answer with proofs, later on, stay tuned.
best Georg
(short answer from work via webmail)