[Xapian-discuss] Static Library Problem

[Charlie Hull]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:21:19PM +0100, Colin Bell wrote:
>> I've just changed over to the static library for Xapian 1.0.6 and get  
>> this compile error from one of my files - the others all compile fine.
> 
> In general, static linking is a bad idea.  Why do you want to?
> 
>> /lib/libxapian.a(flint_table.o): In function  
>> `FlintTable::read_tag(Cursor_*, std::basic_string<char,  
>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*, bool) const':
>> backends/flint/flint_table.cc:1287: undefined reference to  
>> `inflateInit2_'
>> backends/flint/flint_table.cc:1305: undefined reference to `inflate'
>> backends/flint/flint_table.cc:1312: undefined reference to `inflate'
>> backends/flint/flint_table.cc:1339: undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
> 
> Odd, this was supposed to be fixed in 1.0.3.  What does this report:
> 
> xapian-config --libs
> 
> (Assuming you're not linking using libtool, since this should just work
> then...)
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly

I think this is due to a missing Zlib library. I'm not sure what 
platform you were using in this case, Colin, but I've seen similar 
things while attempting to reproduce your other problems.

Cheers

Charlie