Installing Zlib-&zlib-version;
The Zlib package contains compression and uncompression routines used by
some programs.
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Installation of Zlib
Zlib is known to build its shared library incorrectly if CFLAGS is
specified in the environment. If you are using your own CFLAGS variable, be
sure to add the -fPIC directive to your CFLAGS for the
duration of the below configure command, then remove it
afterwards.
Prepare Zlib for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --shared
Compile the package:
make
To have the results tested, issue:
make check.
make check
Install the shared library:
make install
Now also build the non-shared (static) library:
make clean
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
To have the results tested, issue:
make check.
Install the static library:
make install
And fix the permissions on the static library:
chmod 644 /usr/lib/libz.a
It is good policy and common practice to place important libraries into
the /lib directory. This matters most
in scenarios where /usr is on a
separate partition. Essentially, the run-time components of any libraries
depended upon by programs in /bin or
/sbin should reside in
/lib so that they are on the root
partition and available in the event of
/usr being inaccessible.
Therefore we move the run-time components of the shared Zlib into
/lib by issuing the following
command:
mv /usr/lib/libz.so.* /lib
Now we need to fix up the /usr/lib/libz.so symlink
because we just moved the location of the file it points to:
ln -sf ../../lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libz.so
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