Hi Alban, Thanks for the reply !
I was able to resolve this issue, but, not by removing the older version of zlib (i was unable to do so due to dependencies). I did not have older version of zlib-devel installed, I did that and able to install. Regards, VB On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 November 2011 12:58, Venkat Balaji <venkat.bal...@verse.in> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are facing an issue while installing Postgres-9.0.1 on CentOS-5. > > That name always makes me wonder when they're releasing PennyOS or > DollarOS :P > > > Below is the error we are encountering - > > ./configure -- output > > checking for inflate in -lz... no > > configure: error: zlib library not found > ... > > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz > > Apparently your installed libz doesn't provide a function that > configure is checking for. Perhaps upgrading it helps, if possible? > > Another possibility is that configure gets pointed to an old version > of zlib as the first result from LD. You could try removing that, but > you probably have dependencies on it from other packages. > > > Zlib rpms are installed and below is the rpm -qa output - > > [root@localhost postgresql-9.0.1]# rpm -qa | grep zlib > > zlib-1.2.3-4.el5 > > jzlib-1.0.7-4jpp.1 > > zlib-devel-1.2.3-4.el5 > > zlib-1.2.3-3 > > As a non-linux user this doesn't mean much to me. > -- > If you can't see the forest for the trees, > Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. >
