autotools fails to find /lib/liblz.a

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-10-30 13:32, 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).

Thanks Achim,
That confirms I should push that back upstream.
I'm still working on ITP wget2 sub-packages to upgrade from wget.
Problems getting wget2 https to work, either building with gnutls, or to build
at all with OpenSSL.
I think I'll back out the suggested upstream patch, make my own more minimal
tweaks, and see how that works.

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

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