On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:18:40 -0800
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> If it didn't find zlib, it shouldn't be compiling in any code
> that uses it, but it's compiling in that code, so there's
> something bizarre going on.
>
> Go to the top-level directory, run "make distclean", run the
> configure script *and save the output of the script*, and then
> send us both the output of the script and the contents of the
> "config.log" file. We'd need that information to figure out
> what's going on.
OK, I did that and I am attaching the config.log. I did a
comparison with the config.log from my successful compile of
0.9.6 and I am also attaching as config.diff.txt a comparative
extract, which seems to show where the problem occurs. The
difference seems to come with the tests that are commented as
follows in the 0.9.7 configure script :
# Check for "gzgets()" in zlib, because we need it, but
# some older versions of zlib don't have it. It appears
# from the zlib ChangeLog that any released version of
zlib
# with "gzgets()" should have the other routines we
# depend on, such as "gzseek()", "gztell()", and
"zError()".
#
# Another reason why we require "gzgets()" is that
# some versions of zlib that didn't have it, such
# as 1.0.8, had a bug in "gzseek()" that meant that it
# doesn't work correctly on uncompressed files; this
# means we cannot use version 1.0.8. (Unfortunately,
# that's the version that comes with recent X11 source,
# and many people who install XFree86 on their Slackware
# boxes don't realize that they should configure it to
# use the native zlib rather than building and installing
# the crappy old version that comes with XFree86.)
#
# I.e., we can't just avoid using "gzgets()", as
# versions of zlib without "gzgets()" are likely to have
# a broken "gzseek()".
I think my zlib is up-to-date - it is 1.1.4 which (according to
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/), is current.
Of course this would not explain why 0.9.7 is trying to use zlib
when it cannot find a copy that it likes.
Thanks for your continuing help.
Regards,
Geoff
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