error: *** zlib missing

[Peter Stuge]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:48:55AM -0700, hfgj ghgj wrote:
> checking for deflate in -lz... no
> configure: error: *** zlib missing - please install first or check config.log ***

[..]

> if anybody will me then it would be realy appriciated,,  i used to
> give path of zlib also,, but i dont know what is going wrong,,
> 
> can anybody tell me how to set -lz with libz.a

You did this the correct way, but..


> /usr/local/openrg/armv5b-jungo-linux-gnu/lib/gcc-lib/armv5b-jungo-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../../armv5b-jungo-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/local/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz

..the libz.a you specified is not usable on this platform it seems.

The easiest would probably be to re-install zlib from source on your
target system.


//Peter