zlibish problems with cvs gnome-libs

[John Kennedy <jk csuchico edu>]

  I'm having a problem compiling gnome-libs.  I just started trying
to beat on GNOME, so I don't have anything working to compare against.

  I've compiled/compiling, in this order:

	glib, gtk+, imlib, libIDL, ORBit, audiofile, esound & gnome-libs

  They seem happy, but all I really have is the configuration test
programs for the modules that follow them.

  Typical configuration options are "--prefix=/opt/gnome i586-pc-linux-gnu".

  Configuration seems happy finding zlib...

	...
	checking for inflate in -lz... yes
	checking for zlib.h... yes
	...
	/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2
		-mpentium -Wall -Wno-unused -Wmissing-prototypes
		-Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith	 -o htmltest  test.o
		../gtk-xmhtml/libgtkxmhtml.la -lXpm -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lz
		-lSM -lICE -L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk
		-rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm  -lm
		-L/opt/libgr/lib -L/opt/giflib/lib
	gcc -O2 -mpentium -Wall -Wno-unused -Wmissing-prototypes
		-Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -o
		.libs/htmltest test.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gnome/lib
		../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so -lXpm -ljpeg -lpng -lz
		-lz -lSM -lICE -L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk
		-lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm -lm -L/opt/libgr/lib
		-L/opt/giflib/lib -lXpm -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lz -lSM -lICE
		-L/opt/gnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic
		-lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm -lm -L/opt/libgr/lib
		-L/opt/giflib/lib
	../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `uncompress'
	../gtk-xmhtml/.libs/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `compress'
	collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
	make[2]: *** [htmltest] Error 1
	make[2]: Leaving directory `/h/src/jk1/cvs/gnome/gnome-libs/gtk-xmhtml'
	make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
	make[1]: Leaving directory `/h/src/jk1/cvs/gnome/gnome-libs'
	make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

  That /opt/libgr/lib is where zlib is hiding as part of libgr-2.0.13.
It is in /etc/ld.so.conf, ldconfig -v has been run many times, and
the symbols are present:

    [nm libz.a libz.so.1.0.2]
	libz.a:
	...
	compress.o:
	00000000 T compress
	...
	uncompr.o: ...
	00000000 T uncompress
	...

	libz.so.1.0.2:
	...
	00001690 T compress
	...
	00002a20 T uncompress
	...

  Clues?
								--- john