Monty Taylor wrote:
> ntwrkd wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> I am having an issue with drrizle not finding libz. Here is a summary:
>> checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
>> checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
>> checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
>> checking for malloc in -lmtmalloc... no
>> checking for libdrizzle... no
>> checking for libz... no
>> configure: error: libz is required for Drizzle
>>
>> [msa...@fedoradev local-bugs]$ rpm -qa | grep zlib
>> zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.i386
> 
> You need zlib-devel

This is a common misunderstanding from people... should I change the
error message for these to something like:

"libz is required for Drizzle. On RedHat this is found in the zlib-devel
package, on Debian it's in zlib1g-dev."

Or does everyone think that a FAQ entry would suffice?

Monty

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