Bug 654

Summary:	config throws an error due to missing zlib (but zlib present)
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Simone <simone>
Component:	Build system	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.7.1p1
Hardware:	ix86
OS:	Linux

Description Simone 2003-09-17 23:13:22 AEST

I just follow the INSTALL instructions:
uncompress
./configure

but i receive this error:
checking for deflate in -lz... no
configure: error: *** zlib missing - please install first or check config.log 
***

but I've already an openssh server running on the machine (but installed from 
an RPM) and also I've the latest version of both openssl (openssl-0.9.6b-32.7) 
and zlib (zlib-1.1.4-8.7x).

So I cannot run the makefile and so install the new relase

Comment 1 Jason McCormick 2003-09-17 23:57:18 AEST

Do you have the zlib-devel package installed?  -devel packages are generally required for 
compilation.

Comment 2 Simone 2003-09-18 00:18:37 AEST

I don't have the -devel lib.
I'll download it and try

Comment 3 Jason McCormick 2003-09-18 06:11:16 AEST

Did this fix the problem?  I've tried re-building from source several times on
Linux/RPM-based distros with no problems with zlib on 5 platforms.

Comment 4 Simone 2003-09-18 06:40:55 AEST

Yes, with the -devel package it worked fine.
Thank you

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:19 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED