[Xapian-discuss] Static Library Problem

[Kevin Duraj]

I have the same issue when I was installing Xapian on new Linux CentOS
5.1 server.

checking for strerror... yes
checking for hstrerror... yes
checking for working ISO C90 conforming snprintf... snprintf
checking for zlib.h... no
configure: error: zlib.h not found - required for flint (you may need
to install the zlib1g-dev or zlib-devel package)

Xapian could not be install because zlib.h compression library header
was not found in /usr/include/zlib.h

I tried to install "yum -y install zlib", I got message zlib is
already installed ...
Then I tried to uninstall zlib by "yum remove zlib*" ... and my old
IBM server finally died ... poor server, and they say IBM servers
never dies ...
I could not even issue "ls" statement after *LOL* ... never type this
command as root "yum remove zlib*" on your own server !

Kevin Duraj
http://myhealthcare.com



On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> [Please don't top-post your replies]
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:07:12PM +0100, Colin Bell wrote:
>  > On 14 Apr 2008, at 17:49, Charlie Hull wrote:
>  > > Olly Betts wrote:
>  > >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:21:19PM +0100, Colin Bell wrote:
>
> > >>> backends/flint/flint_table.cc:1305: undefined reference to `inflate'
>  > >>
>
> > >> 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...)
>  > >
>
> > > 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.
>
>  It's clearly a zlib issue, but as I said, this issue should have been
>
> fixed in 1.0.3.
>
>
> > Yes, a zlib issue indeed. This was on Linux and now that compiles too.
>
>  How did you fix it?
>
>  If you hacked around the problem, I'd rather track it down and fix it.
>  Although static linking is usually the wrong approach, it is supposed to
>  work here.
>
>  Can you tell me what this reports:
>
>  xapian-config --libs
>
>  Cheers,
>     Olly
>
>
>
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