Gnucash 1.8.1 configure fails: with Could not link sample xml program

[Derek Atkins]

Klaus Binder <klaus.binder at gmx.ch> writes:

> configure:10564: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lxml -L/usr/lib 
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lxml -lz -lm  1>&5
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.2/../../../../i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:

See the "cannot find -lz".  That means you don't have zlib or zlib-devel
installed.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available