[Tioga-users] QUICK_INSTALL for Tioga ver. 1.8 on Mac G4 under OS 10.4.11 fails

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Samuel H. Dupree, Jr. wrote:
>  Bill,
>
> I'm attempting to install Tioga ver. 1.8 on a Mac G4 under Mac OS 10.4.11.
> When I ran the QUICK_INSTALL file from my
> home directory I got the following messages:
>
>
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> checking for compress() in -lz... no
> Error: you should have zlib (including development files) installed to
> build and run Tioga. You can get it there:
>
>  http://www.zlib.net/
>
> If that doesn't solve your problem, please report it on the Tioga tracker:
>
>  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=701
>
>
> To my knowledge I have zlib and the development library installed.

  The message says that zlib is not installed, but it might only be
that the script was unable to find it - or, possibly, that your Ruby
setup is broken in a certain way that prevents executables from being
built (which has been seen sometimes on this list). To get more
information, could you please post the contents of the split/mkmf2.log
(or mkmf.log, I really don't remember) here ?

> How do I verify that I have the development library installed?

  The fact that the header was found seems to indicate that the
library is installed, but that for some reason the linking step is
failing.

  Cheers,

      Vincent, who should really come up with a better installation
scheme, but so far has been unable/unwilling/undecided/uncomfortable
(pick which better suits your impressions) to do so...