3.0.2 build failure on RHELv5.1

[Jeff Blaine]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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

John,

octave-3.0.2:beijing> grep gzclearerr /usr/include/zlib.h
ZEXTERN void ZEXPORT gzclearerr OF((gzFile file));
octave-3.0.2:beijing>

octave-3.0.2:beijing> grep zlib myconfigure.log
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
octave-3.0.2:beijing>

octave-3.0.2:beijing> echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin
octave-3.0.2:beijing> env | grep FLAGS
octave-3.0.2:beijing>