Re: libz

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Cliff Wollam wrote:

> I am trying to build gnome-libs-1.0.10 on a pentium machine running redhat
> 5.2 and I am getting the following error when running the configure
> script:
> checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
> checking for grantpt in -lpt... no
> 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 *** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or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.
> 
> According to the info I see gnome-libs needs zlib 1.1.3 and what I have is
> exactly that version which is what shipped with rh 5.2.
> 
> Any guesses?

  Look in '/usr/X11R6/lib' (or wherever your X libs are) and see if you
have a 'libz.a' in there, if so rename or delete it to get it out of the
way. X distributions usually come with it and it may be interfering with
the 1.1.3 lib you have installed elsewhere.

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