[Freeciv-Dev] Re: problem with 11.4

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/07/21 08:05 , Thue wrote:
>Den fre, 21 jul 2000 skrev Paul Dean:
>> Kero van Gelder <kero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> > Would be nice to know whether those Solaris boxes you are using have
>> > libz somewhere or not. If so, is it a shared or a static library?
>> 
>> hmm.  We have a lot of SunOS machines as well, which /do/ have libz,
>> but I wouldn't want to play freeciv on those because they're a bit
>> old.  It's not on any of the Solaris machines.
>> 
>> It works fine now with the --with-libz=no flag, btw.
>
>So your solaris machine haven't got libz, but yet ./configure finds it and
>gcc links against it! (well, obviously it doesn't really link against it)
>
>Maybe you could check the output from ./configure to see what is says
>about libz?

./configure *does* do a link against libz to check for it.  Since it
succeeds, libz must exist in some form somewhere.  However, ./configure
does not try to run the program it links -- and it's a run-time failure
Paul is seeing.

jjm