Yes, this _particular_ problem is because I had both i686 and x86_64
versions of the zlib package installed ... _and_ was missing zlib-devel.
Now I'm running into other problems after that in the build, but I'm still
pretty convinced they're package issues. I think this Fedora24 system is
a tad "over configured."
However, hat tip for the reference to the config.log as it exposed the
root of the problem I was seeing.
Thanks.
-ap
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Alan Partis wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > > One of the lines of output from ./configure is:
> > >
> > > "checking for inet_ntop... no"
> > >
> > > One the Fedora 25 system, where I'm successful with the build, it says:
> > >
> > > "checking for inet_ntop... yes"
> >
> > So, if you look for that test in the config.log files on the two systems
> > (searching for inet_ntop in the file should find it), what is the output
> > for the test in question in the two files?
>
> The complaint appears to be about the gcc "-lz" flag. Results in:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/6.3.1/../../../libz.so when searching for
> -lz
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> I still suspect a package problem. It might serve me well to simply
> uninstall gcc and it's related libraries and start again.
>
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