I am trying to install Emacs Version 28.1 onto my Ubuntu GNU/Linux machine.

I have run the program ./configure with the following arguments with no
errors.

www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1$ ./configure
--with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=ifavailable --with-jpeg=ifavailable
--with-png=ifavailable --with-gif=ifavailable --with-tiff=ifavailable
--with-gnutls=ifavailable

When I run "make" the command ld returns the following error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz

What am I doing wrong?  The print out of the command "make" is shown
below:

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www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1$ make
make -C lib all
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lib'
  GEN      alloca.h
  GEN      dirent.h
  GEN      malloc/dynarray.gl.h
  GEN      malloc/dynarray-skeleton.gl.h
  GEN      fcntl.h
  GEN      inttypes.h
echo '#include "mini-gmp.h"' >gmp.h-t
mv gmp.h-t gmp.h
  GEN      limits.h
  GEN      signal.h
  GEN      stdio.h
  GEN      stdlib.h
  GEN      string.h
  GEN      sys/random.h
  GEN      sys/select.h
  GEN      sys/stat.h
  GEN      sys/time.h
  GEN      sys/types.h
  GEN      time.h
  GEN      unistd.h
  CC       fingerprint.o
  CC       fchmodat.o
  CC       fcntl.o
  CC       free.o
  CC       fsusage.o
  CC       mini-gmp-gnulib.o
  CC       regex.o
  CC       sig2str.o
  CC       sigdescr_np.o
  CC       time_rz.o
  CC       acl-errno-valid.o
  CC       acl-internal.o
  CC       get-permissions.o
  CC       set-permissions.o
  CC       allocator.o
  CC       binary-io.o
  CC       c-ctype.o
  CC       c-strcasecmp.o
  CC       c-strncasecmp.o
  CC       careadlinkat.o
  CC       close-stream.o
  CC       count-leading-zeros.o
  CC       count-one-bits.o
  CC       count-trailing-zeros.o
  CC       md5-stream.o
  CC       md5.o
  CC       sha1.o
  CC       sha256.o
  CC       sha512.o
  CC       dtoastr.o
  CC       dtotimespec.o
  CC       malloc/dynarray_at_failure.o
  CC       malloc/dynarray_emplace_enlarge.o
  CC       malloc/dynarray_finalize.o
  CC       malloc/dynarray_resize.o
  CC       malloc/dynarray_resize_clear.o
  CC       file-has-acl.o
  CC       filemode.o
  CC       filevercmp.o
  CC       gettime.o
  CC       nproc.o
  CC       nstrftime.o
  CC       pipe2.o
  CC       qcopy-acl.o
  CC       stat-time.o
  CC       tempname.o
  CC       timespec.o
  CC       timespec-add.o
  CC       timespec-sub.o
  CC       u64.o
  CC       unistd.o
  CC       openat-die.o
  CC       save-cwd.o
  AR       libgnu.a
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lib'
make -C lib-src all
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lib-src'
  CCLD     etags
  CCLD     ctags
  CCLD     emacsclient
  CCLD     ebrowse
  CCLD     hexl
  CC       pop.o
  CCLD     movemail
  CCLD     make-docfile
  CCLD     make-fingerprint
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lib-src'
make -C src VCSWITNESS='' BIN_DESTDIR=''/usr/local/bin/'' \
ELN_DESTDIR='/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.1/' all
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/src'
  GEN      lisp.mk
make -C ../oldXMenu/ libXMenu11.a
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/oldXMenu'
  CC       Activate.o
  CC       AddPane.o
  CC       AddSel.o
  CC       ChgPane.o
  CC       ChgSel.o
  CC       Create.o
  CC       DelPane.o
  CC       DelSel.o
  CC       Destroy.o
  CC       Error.o
  CC       EvHand.o
  CC       FindPane.o
  CC       FindSel.o
  CC       InsPane.o
  CC       InsSel.o
  CC       Internal.o
  CC       Locate.o
  CC       Post.o
  CC       Recomp.o
  CC       SetAEQ.o
  CC       SetFrz.o
  CC       SetPane.o
  CC       SetSel.o
  CC       XDelAssoc.o
  CC       XLookAssoc.o
  CC       XCrAssoc.o
  CC       XDestAssoc.o
  CC       XMakeAssoc.o
  CC       insque.o
  GEN      libXMenu11.a
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/oldXMenu'
  GEN      globals.h
  CC       dispnew.o
  CC       frame.o
  CC       scroll.o
  CC       xdisp.o
  CC       menu.o
  CC       xmenu.o
  CC       window.o
  CC       charset.o
  CC       coding.o
  CC       category.o
  CC       ccl.o
  CC       character.o
  CC       chartab.o
  CC       bidi.o
  CC       cm.o
  CC       term.o
  CC       terminal.o
  CC       xfaces.o
  CC       xterm.o
  CC       xfns.o
  CC       xselect.o
  CC       xrdb.o
  CC       xsmfns.o
  CC       xsettings.o
  CC       emacs.o
  CC       keyboard.o
  CC       macros.o
  CC       keymap.o
  CC       sysdep.o
  CC       bignum.o
  CC       buffer.o
  CC       filelock.o
  CC       insdel.o
  CC       marker.o
  CC       minibuf.o
  CC       fileio.o
  CC       dired.o
  CC       cmds.o
  CC       casetab.o
  CC       casefiddle.o
  CC       indent.o
  CC       search.o
  CC       regex-emacs.o
  CC       undo.o
  CC       alloc.o
  CC       pdumper.o
  CC       data.o
  GEN      buildobj.h
  CC       doc.o
  CC       editfns.o
  CC       callint.o
  CC       eval.o
  CC       floatfns.o
  CC       fns.o
  CC       font.o
  CC       print.o
  CC       lread.o
  CC       emacs-module.o
  CC       syntax.o
  CC       bytecode.o
  CC       comp.o
  CC       dynlib.o
  CC       process.o
  CC       gnutls.o
  CC       callproc.o
  CC       region-cache.o
  CC       sound.o
  CC       timefns.o
  CC       atimer.o
  CC       doprnt.o
  CC       intervals.o
  CC       textprop.o
  CC       composite.o
  CC       xml.o
  CC       lcms.o
  CC       inotify.o
  CC       profiler.o
  CC       decompress.o
  CC       thread.o
  CC       systhread.o
  CC       xfont.o
  CC       fontset.o
  CC       fringe.o
  CC       image.o
  CC       terminfo.o
  CC       lastfile.o
make -C ../admin/charsets all
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/charsets'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/charsets'
make -C ../admin/unidata charscript.el
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/unidata'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'charscript.el'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/unidata'
make -C ../admin/unidata emoji-zwj.el
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/unidata'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'emoji-zwj.el'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/admin/unidata'
  CCLD     temacs
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:647: temacs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/src'
make: *** [Makefile:449: src] Error 2