error compiling balsa 1.0

[Volker Schutz nokia com]

hi,

i try to compile balso 1.0 on my debian 2.2. since i have no gtk+ or
gnome stuff installed and the libs on my debian 2.2 cd's are outdated
for balsa 1.0 i downloaded the gnomelibs 1.2.8 from gnome.org. but
i get an error when starting ./configure from the gnomelib package:

checking for inflate in -lz... no

checking for compress in -lz... no

configure: error:

*** Incorrect libz version found.  Please make sure you do not have

*** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or

*** elsewhere on your system.  Versions of libz with the compress and

*** uncompress symbols are sufficiently recent to build GNOME.


the README of this says:

-+--------------------------------------------

*

* Requirements

*

 

To compile the GNOME libraries, as a minimum you must install:

 

      zlib            1.1.3           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.*

 

ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.* on my system is:

 

lrwxrwxrwx     13 Dec 17 16:19 /usr/lib/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.1.3

-rw-r--r--  54556 Sep 25 15:19 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3

 

i don't know why configure is complaining about my libz. do you
have any hints?

volker schuetz