libz and RHEL 5.9 compile of Git

Hello, I have a RHEL system that I am not the admin of. I needed to install git and got the source. Everything is okay until I got to this point below. I downloaded and installed the latest libz (1.2.8) but i installed it under a local directory under my user name (i.e. /home/ssheikh/local). The

Re: libz and RHEL 5.9 compile of Git

Got it working but then I had some issues with the perl portions of the install and I subsequently thought I could eliminate those portions and tried setting export NO_PERL=1 and that installed everything else...and got pass this error but when I tried to checkout a git repository as follows, I