Re: autotools fails to find /lib/liblz.a

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2020-10-30 13:42, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 10/30/2020 3:32 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>> Hoping this is a symptom of a well known issue with a well known solution, or I
>>> can get the build to work without it:
>>>
>>>    CCLD     libwget.la
>>>
>>> *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -llz.
>>
>> That sounds like a bug in configure for whatever you are trying to build
>> (you didn't say).  First off, it shouldn't even look for a static
>> library and none of that name exists in Cygwin.  Also, if you need to
>> figure out what goes wrong you'd better advise make to output the full
>> command lines and not abbreviate (you will probably need to add V=1 or
>> something like that to the arguments).
> 
> Whatever Brian is building appears to be looking for the lzlib library
> (https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html), which in some distros, such as Debian,
> is provided by a liblz-dev package.  As you said, it's not in Cygwin.
> 
> I would have expected the configure script to detect that Cygwin doesn't have it.

Thanks Ken,
I'm still trying to ITP wget2, get https working, and split into sub-packages.
Working with upstream, but their suggested configure.ac patch does seem to lack
some consistency checking, as I'm trying to build explicitly --without-lzip to
avoid this issue.
I'll report back upstream, and pick parts of their patch to selectively apply,
to avoid the above breakage and others.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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