Re: libz

[Cliff Wollam <cwollam watson wustl edu>]

> 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 *** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or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.
>
I did a find starting at root for libz* and the only library I found is
the one that should be correct.

Thanks
Cliff