I think putting verbose messages in configure would be best, no reason to make people go one step futher to find the answer.
-Eric On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Monty Taylor wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
