From: Dan Nelson
Date: August 19 2004 6:51pm
Subject: Re: Compilation error
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In the last episode (Aug 19), Casey Allen Shobe said:
> Same problem when trying to compile 4.0 instead of 4.1:
> 
> gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -O3 -mcpu=i686 -felide-constructors -fno-rtti
> mini_client_errors.o stacktrace.o repl_failsafe.o sql_olap.o -static 

^^^ Note the -static flag here

> ../vio/libvio.a ../mysys/libmysys.a ../dbug/libdbug.a ../regex/libregex.a
> ../strings/libmystrings.a -ldl -lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread
> /bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

> > Yes, I have zlib.
> >
> > $ find /lib -user zlib | xargs ls -l
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 zlib     zlib           13 Mar 29  2003 /lib/libz.so -> libz.so.1.1.4
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 zlib     zlib           13 Mar 29  2003 /lib/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.1.4
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 zlib     zlib        63020 Mar 23  2003 /lib/libz.so.1.1.4

But you don't have a static libz (libz.a).  You've only got a dynamic
one.  Redhat usually puts the static libraries in a separate "-dev"
rpm.

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	Dan Nelson
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