Re: [xml] Compile error on Solaris 2.6

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:40:16AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:28:44PM +0100, robert wrote:
> >  >I can't compile libxml2_2.3.5 on my Solaris 2.6. I get this error:
> >  >ld: fatal: library -lz: not found
> >  >...
> >
> > Ah, yes, thats another thing: libxml needs libz (the Zlib compression
> > library). Even if you tell configure not to, it still refers to it.
>
>   I have seens and received in the history of libxml maybe a dozen
> different configure.in patches to detect and link this damn library.
> None of them ever worked everywhere. If you have and can test a
> configure.in sections which allows to do this and works:
>
>   - on linux Red Hat
>   - on linux SuSE
>   - on Solaris
>   - on BSD
>   - on OSF1
>   - on HP-UX
>   - on SGI
>
> Then I will be very glad to receive such a piece of code !
> Usually when it finally works everywhere else it ends up breaking
> on SuSE, no idea why !

Well, we contributed the last set of zlib patches to configure.in.
I've sent mail to Jakob for his config.status and config.log files. We
currently have no problems on Solaris, OSF1, HP-UX, or SGI. If anyone
has problems *now*, speak up so we can fix them.

-- 
albert chin (china thewrittenword com)