[Xapian-discuss] Static Library Problem

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Le jeudi 17 avril 2008 à 16:42 -0700, Kevin Duraj a écrit :
> 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

As the error message helpfully pointed out, you might want to try
installing the zlib developpement package next time. :)

The proper package on RHEL is "zlib-devel", if I recall well.

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