CPL Quality Control - failure in spherp on host psdlin3

OS:Linux
OS Version:Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron)
CPU:Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
Hardware:i686 (i386)
C Compiler:gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
CFITSIODIR:/vlt/VLT2010/gnu
FFTWDIR:/opt/fftw
GSLDIR:/vlt/VLT2010/gnu
JAVA_HOME:/vlt/VLT2010/jdk1.6.0_18
WCSDIR:Unset

Failed with exit-value 1

stderr produced by: ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/diskb/llundin/llundin.20344 CC=/usr/bin/gcc CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wunreachable-code -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-noreturn -Wredundant-decls -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var'

Dropped these compiler flags: -fno-common
configure: error: CPL (headers and libraries) was not found on your system. Please check!