Dan Cohn/INS wrote:
> with gnome installations, it seems to be common to have a libz.a in
> /usr/local/lib, in addition to /usr/X11/lib. I assume, but havent checked,
> that the zlib packaged with gnome is set to install in the
> /usr/local/path.. however.. i found this morning i was missing gzopen in
> my lib in /usr/local/lib/libz.a, but not in my /usr/X11/lib/libz.a.. so, I
> suppose we should actually build a check into the autoconf to check for
> gzopen in zlib, and find the next instance in libpath if its not there..
> sounds icky.. i'll gather some feedback before writing up the diffs.
Hmm, funny, the whole purpose of the z library is to give a C API to gzip.
So if gzopen is not defined therein, what else does it define ???
I mean, could it be possible that there is some libz package floating around
in the internet which was erroneously stripped so it has no symbols at all ?
Anyway, as a workaround it might indeed be good for all packages (like
libxml) to test for a sane libz before building, i.e. not a mere existing test
but a real one like for most tests which ship with autoconf.
Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
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