Re: linker failure -- debuild fails -- please help

["Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Thursday 10 October 2002 20:23, justin cunningham wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a program from debian src and have gcc 2.95 and
> related libraries installed so why does gcc die on this line?
>
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o .libs/vchkpw vchkpw.o vconfig.o
> ./.libs/libvpopmail.so -lfreecdb -lfreecdbmake -ldl
> /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so -lz -lm -lnsl -lcrypt
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I think you will need to install zlib1g-dev.

You might also like to try running 

  apt-get build-dep <name-of-package>

to try and make sure you have any other required build-dependancies.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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