openssh-3.0.1p1-2:zlib error

[Charles Wilson]

Ean Houts wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this is really a bug, but it was definately unclear to
> me...anyway, I'm trying to compile openssh, which requires zlib.
> 
> I'm running on NT4.0, with the latest cygwin, gcc, etc. installed.
> 
> I installed the latest zlib from one of the cygwin mirrors, but still got
> the  '*** zlib missing - please install first or check config.log ***' error
> when trying to run configure.  I triple checked everything for zlib and it
> was fine, so I downloaded the source, compiled it, ran test ok and used that
> dll - same prob.  I even specified the --with-zlib= option to specify an
> explicit path, with the same result.
> 
> So, I faked out the part of configure that checks for it, and got as far as
> the regex check...that was missing too.  So, I installed that, and suddenly
> openssh was able to find zlib!  Everything proceeded fine from there, but
> the zlib missing error was definately misleading.

You probably needed to add your cygwin/bin directory to the SYSTEM path
variable.

--Chuck

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