On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello,
>
> actually i�m pretty eager to try out your software,
> but it keeps showing
> problems while compiling.
[...]
> -L/usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libxml.so -lz ../intl/libintl.a
> /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lz: No such file
> or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> what i figure out here, is that neither ld nor gcc
> have a -lz option.
-l<something> means include lib<something>.a. You are missing zlib, the
compression library.
> btw. i�m running SuSE Linux 6.0 (2.0.34 Kernel)
Hmmm... can't find a SuSE rpm for zlib-devel at rpmfind.net. You may be
able to use one from a related distribution, or just get the sources.
-Lars
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