[GRASS5] [bug #754] (grass) zlib not found

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Rafael,

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:12:28AM +0200, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=754
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> 
> Subject: zlib not found
> 
> Platform: Linux/Intel
> Linux distro: RedHat
> linux cpu: Intel (i486, i586, pentium ...)
> Xwindows version: Xfree 4.0.x
> Xwindows manager: KDE 1.x
> TclTk version: I don't know
> grass downloaded at: Hannover site
> grass binary for platform: Linux/Intel binaries
> grass sources source: yes, I am using the latest GRASS from CVS
> 
> I am a first time grass user and I have experienced some problems installing it. When I run the ./configure command, the following message appears:
> 
> could not find zlib (or something like that)
> 
> However, the zlib is correctly installed in the /usr/lib dir

please try to use the configure path parameters:

configure --help |grep zlib
  --with-zlib-includes=DIR
                          Specify includes directory for zlib
  --with-zlib-libs=DIR
                          Specify library directory for zlib

both libz and zlib.h must be present.

Regards

 Markus Neteler