Not really. That package is intended as _runtime_ system, and for that the .so links are not required. It's not for actually building programs against it. For that a separate package (maybe named baselibs-32bit-devel) would be required, but that doesn't exist. I know, that this doesn't help you ;-|
They exist, but only in 9.0, not in SLES8. % rpm -qlp readline-devel-32bit.rpm /usr/lib/libhistory.a /usr/lib/libhistory.so /usr/lib/libreadline.a /usr/lib/libreadline.so % rpm -qip readline-devel-32bit.rpm Name : readline-devel-32bit Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 9.0 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 0 Build Date: Wed Sep 24 16:31:03 2003 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: Weber.suse.de Group : Development/Libraries/C and C++ Source RPM: baselibs-32bit-9.0-0.src.rpm Size : 608490 License: GPL Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback Summary : The readline library link kit Sorry. For SLES8 you can only build them yourself for now as a workaround or copy them from a 32bit system. -Andi