On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 06:20, Matt Jones wrote: > I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. > I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. > I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World > worked fine, but when I did make Install I recieved the following errors... > > > "... > rm -f gunzip.o > gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith > -I../../../include/fonts -I../include -I../../../programs/Xserver/include > > -I../../../include -I../../.. -I../../../exports/include -Dlinux > -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE > -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO > -DFONTDIRATTRIB -DBUILD_SPEEDO -DBUILD_TYPE1 -DBUILD_CID > -DBUILD_FREETYPE > -DFONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY=\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir\" > > -DX_GZIP_FONT_COMPRESSION gunzip.c > gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory > make[4]: *** [gunzip.o] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib/font/fontfile' > make[3]: *** [fontfile] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib/font' > make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc/lib' > make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xc' > make: *** [install] Error 2 > " > > How can I fix this error, or is it an error I can fix? > Does anyone know what this means?
Install the zlib dev package. apt-get install zlib1g-dev All those different dev packages contain the header files (.h) for developing software (or compiling) for the various libraries. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington
