On 15 November 2011 12:58, Venkat Balaji <venkat.balaji@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > We are facing an issue while installing Postgres-9.0.1 on CentOS-5. That name always makes me wonder when they're releasing PennyOS or DollarOS :P > Below is the error we are encountering - > ./configure -- output > checking for inflate in -lz... no > configure: error: zlib library not found ... > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz Apparently your installed libz doesn't provide a function that configure is checking for. Perhaps upgrading it helps, if possible? Another possibility is that configure gets pointed to an old version of zlib as the first result from LD. You could try removing that, but you probably have dependencies on it from other packages. > Zlib rpms are installed and below is the rpm -qa output - > [root@localhost postgresql-9.0.1]# rpm -qa | grep zlib > zlib-1.2.3-4.el5 > jzlib-1.0.7-4jpp.1 > zlib-devel-1.2.3-4.el5 > zlib-1.2.3-3 As a non-linux user this doesn't mean much to me. -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
