3.0.2 build failure on RHELv5.1

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Sep-2008, Jeff Blaine wrote:

| The zlib version that comes with RHEL5.1, which appears to be
| 1.2.3
| 
| octave-3.0.2:beijing> rpm -qa | grep zlib
| zlib-1.2.3-3
| zlib-1.2.3-3
| zlib-devel-1.2.3-3
| zlib-devel-1.2.3-3
| octave-3.0.2:beijing>

Does it have the gzclearerr?  Does the header file provided with this
package declare gzclearerr?

Looking at Octave's configure.in script, it checks for the presence of
gzclearerr when checking for zlib.  So I don't understand why that
check would have succeeded if gzclearerr is not present.

jwe