On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Talbert<ransom1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The forums seem to have gone down while I was trying to compose my response! >> Here it is, in case you can pass it on to the person with the iszsue before >> the forums are resurrected. > > Your message got posted. > > >> As I think was mentioned earlier in this thread, you almost certainly need >> the zlib-devel RPM package installed in order to build SWORD from sources. >> So please try: >> >> [code] >> sudo yum install zlib-devel # Install zlib-devel package >> ./usrinst.sh # Configure SWORD build environment >> make # Build SWORD >> [/code] > > I'm guessing he doesn't have sudo. And shouldn't configure be checking > for zlib? I'm almost sure it checks somewhere, but I think it doesn't > abort the configure if it fails.
It also doesn't abort if it fails to find CLucene, though it will try to compile with it in, cURL - ditto, ICU - ditto, and even, as I found out today, g++ (at least these were the case with 1.6.0 - I don't know about the state of SVN HEAD with these). --Greg > > >> Note that building SWORD using ./configure with no options supplied is >> probably not what you really want to do; please let the included usrinst.sh >> script do the work of choosing good defaults for you. Incidentally, did you >> read the INSTALL file, which has info on how to build SWORD in it? > > He's been using usrinst.sh > > I don't think this explains why sword allows to configure successfully > in the case of missing zlib. > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
