Re: gnome-libs and libz

["Ben Taylor" <sol7x86 hotmail com>]

export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib ...." before you configure. This
will allow configure to pickup the correct link flags so
that configure will finish correctly for you.

Ben

> From: chris harrison <gnome lowfield co uk>
> To: gnome-list gnome org
> Subject: gnome-libs and libz
> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:05:09 +0000
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm trying to compile gnome-libs locally (ie. not as root).
> The trouble is that
>   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/lib
>
> throws an error
>
> 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 *** an outdated libz.a or libz.so hiding in your X11 distribution or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.
>
>
> This, despite libz 1.1.3 having been installed locally (underneath
> $HOME/lib).
>
> I've been generally tinkering to no effect - there is another
> libz around, in /usr/lib, but that's 1.1.3 too! If there are
> other versions of libz.a and/or libz.so around I can't
> delete them - I'm presuming that I can get configure to
> look at the libs in a different order?
>
> If the versions are sufficiently recent, as the error message says,
> how can I build gnome-libs anyway?
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> chris harrison
> http://www.lowfield.co.uk/
>
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