Re: error compiling balsa 1.0

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

You need the headers aswell, /usr/include/zlib.h on my box. This will come
in a -dev (debian) or -devel (RH+friends) package. On debian the -dev also
includes the /usr/lib/libz.so link which I think are needed for linking



On 2000-12-18 07:21:13 +0000 Volker.Schutz@nokia.com wrote:
> 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 gnome stuff installed and the libs on my debian 2.2 cd's are outdated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 *** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or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
> 
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Ian Campbell
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