On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 04:11:31PM +1200, Davin Pearson wrote:
> 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

"-lz" is the option for the linker lo link in a library called
"libz". The first attempt at a remedy would be to install the
corresponding packages (zlib1g and zlib1g-dev, you probably need
the "-dev" companion, since you are trying to compile against
it).

I'm not 100% sure that will help: if zlib were missing, I'd have
expected the build process to fail earlier.

Cheers
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t