Re: : Postgres installation error on CentOS

Hi Alban,

Thanks for the reply !

I was able to resolve this issue, but, not by removing the older version of
zlib (i was unable to do so due to dependencies).

I did not have older version of zlib-devel installed, I did that and able
to install.

Regards,
VB

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 15 November 2011 12:58, Venkat Balaji <venkat(dot)balaji(at)verse(dot)in> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > We are facing an issue while installing Postgres-9.0.1 on CentOS-5.
>
> That name always makes me wonder when they're releasing PennyOS or
> DollarOS :P
>
> > Below is the error we are encountering -
> > ./configure -- output
> > checking for inflate in -lz... no
> > configure: error: zlib library not found
> ...
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
>
> Apparently your installed libz doesn't provide a function that
> configure is checking for. Perhaps upgrading it helps, if possible?
>
> Another possibility is that configure gets pointed to an old version
> of zlib as the first result from LD. You could try removing that, but
> you probably have dependencies on it from other packages.
>
> > Zlib rpms are installed and below is the rpm -qa output -
> > [root(at)localhost postgresql-9.0.1]# rpm -qa | grep zlib
> > zlib-1.2.3-4.el5
> > jzlib-1.0.7-4jpp.1
> > zlib-devel-1.2.3-4.el5
> > zlib-1.2.3-3
>
> As a non-linux user this doesn't mean much to me.
> --
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> Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
>