Thanks Colin, that solved the problem. ken
----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Problems with Make and MySQL perl modules > "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I > >ran make I got these errors: > >"LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/....." cc -o > >/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o > >mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -/mysqlclient -lm -lz > >-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2-lgcc > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find - lz > >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status" > > > >I think that the problem is related to linking but I'm not that familiar > >with compiling and linking file so I can't be sure. But whether it is or not > >the real question is how to get rid of the complaints about "cannot > >find -lz". At least I THINK that is the real question. Any help would be > >appreciated. > > That'll be the zlib compression library. You need to install the > zlib1g-dev package. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >