[Icecast] compiling 2.3.1

[Robert Muchnick]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Karl Heyes wrote:

> marco chrappan wrote:
>>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: 
>>> cannot find -lz

> one of the libraries that icecast is using (eg libxml2) has been built to 
> require the zlib compression library. You'll need to install that and run 
> make again.

Slackware 10.0 comes with zlib as a standard part of the distro. It's 
found in /usr/lib. Make sure that you have softlinks from the real library 
to both libz.so and libz.so.1 so Icecast can find what it's looking for.

Robert Muchnick
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