zlib missing?

posix_memalign · 09-20-2008, 08:21 PM

Upon attempting to build Celestia 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 I encounter the following error:

checking for deflate in -lz... no
configure: error: zlib not found.

This issue arises despite the fact I have the following packages installed:

zlib-bin - compression library - sample programs
zlib1g - compression library - runtime
zlib1g-dev - compression library - development
zlibc - Uncompressing C Library
zziplib-bin - library providing read access on ZIP-archives - binaries

I have also tried to remove the packages and reinstall them, to no avail.

crabboy · 09-20-2008, 09:40 PM

First try this:

Code:

$ locate libz.a
/usr/lib/libz.a

Then:

Code:

$ nm /usr/lib/libz.a | grep deflate

You should see something like:
00001c00 T deflate

If that is there, then you'll have to debug the configure script. Your options are run it with a sh -x ./configure or just vi the file then search for the error text and then attempt to recreate the test program and compile line.

John VV · 09-20-2008, 09:55 PM

what distro are you building on and what gui are you building for Gnome,kde
this is what i use for my custom SVN build
./configure --prefix=/opt --with-gnome --enable-cairo --with-cspice-dir=/opt/cspice --with-lua --disable-nls