Re: FAQ addition (was Re: Another one with compiling problems :()

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

Yes, I have made this addition.  Many thanks for the suggestion.

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Koen D'Hondt wrote:

> This one should be in the FAQ, it's a common problem and is caused
> on at least all RH5.0 systems and probably all systems which use
> precompiled X11R6 binaries.
> 
> Problem:
> linking gtk-xmhtml fails with undefined references to
> `uncompress' and `compress'
> 
> Cause:
> XFree86. It installs a static libz.a in /usr/X11R6/lib/libz.a, and
> when /usr/X11R6/lib is specified on the command line, ld will take
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libz.a instead of /usr/lib/libz.[a|so]
> 
> Solution:
> Simply remove /usr/X11R6/lib/libz.a as it serves no purpose whatsoever.
> 
> Cheers,
> Koen D'Hondt
> 
> 
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