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 *** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or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.
>
> I ran into this problem too, and if memory serves there is an updated
zlib
> in the 'update' dir of 5.2 on the redhat sites. You can also try
getting the
> zlib SRPM (NOT the binary RPM!) from the current 6.0 dir, and
recompile
> (with rpm --rebuild <whatever>.src.rpm)
>
I shall look into these.  I did some looking last night though for the
source and only found the exact same version I already have.  I'll dig
further this time and hope I don't end up in the molten core of the
earth.

Thanks
Cliff