Hi, salmansheikh wrote: > I > downloaded and installed the latest libz (1.2.8) but i installed it under a > local directory under my user name (i.e. /home/ssheikh/local). The problem > is that git only looks in the locations below. I even have that directory in > my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Confusingly, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is only used a run-time. The build time library path is just called LIBRARY_PATH. You may also need to add your libz's include/ dir to CPATH. See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html for more details. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html