On 2014-01-22 16.59, salmansheikh wrote: > Hello, > > I have a RHEL system that I am not the admin of. I needed to install git and > got the source. Everything is okay until I got to this point below. 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 $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So, how can I force make to use that version of libz > and not the old one that came with this RHEL 5.9 distro? > > [ssheikh@gs-560g3080090e git-1.8.3.4]$ make > LINK git-credential-store > /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: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [git-credential-store] Error 1 > You need to tell the linker where to search for the library. Please have a look at the Makefile: ifdef ZLIB_PATH BASIC_CFLAGS += -I$(ZLIB_PATH)/include EXTLIBS += -L$(ZLIB_PATH)/$(lib) $(CC_LD_DYNPATH)$(ZLIB_PATH)/$(lib) endif -- 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