Mysql-5.018 fails to build from the ports

Wed Jan 11 02:43:03 PST 2006

Hi:

I've got a freebsd 4.11-release box which is kept up to date using
portupgrade. Haven't had any problem until recently - but now attempting to
build mysql 5.0.18 fails. It worked as far as .16, but both .17 and .18 have
failed. I get the following error:

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libtool15: link: cannot find the library `../zlib/libz.la' or unhandled
argument `../zlib/libz.la'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client/work/mysql-5.0.18/libmysql_r.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client/work/mysql-5.0.18.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-client.
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The other thing I notice is early on in the configure script, I get the
following notice about zlib not being found - though I thought zlib was
bundled system-wide.

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checking for zlib compression library... system-wide zlib not found, using
one bundled with MySQL
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Any help in solving this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Barry