make hangs on "libz.la" not found error

[leapy]

Hello

I hope someone out there can help.

Friday afternoon I successfully compiled php4.3.3 with a given set of configuration options.

It then transpired that I had used incorrect versions of libxml and libxslt on which to build the php. So I compiled newer versions of each.

I therefore needed to recompile php again to take advantage of the changes. I did 'make distclean' and started from scratch.

I ran configure again using the same set of options [at least, I THINK so].

This time 'make' fails at the following point:

"
grep: /usr/lib/libz.la:No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read
/usr/lib/libz/la: No such file or directory libtool: link:
'/usr/lib/libz.la' is not a valid libtool archive make: [libphp4.la]
Error 1
"

It is true that I do not appear to have /usr/lib/libz.la on my system but I have not changed anything to do with zlib at all.

I also cannot find out which source would provide libz.la file, so I assume that it is something that is generated locally at build time? I ran updatedb but there appears to be no such file.

I tried deleting config.cache. I also tried unzipping my php-4.3.3. source into a clean directory. Still the same error.

Any advice very gratefully received

[leapy]

further on this same problem - I have been doing some sniffing around:

looking at other *.la files in my /usr/lib folder it would appear that the script ltmain.sh in the php source is supposed to create the libz.la file in /usr/lib to point to /usr/lib/libz.so....

I do not understand enough about the compile process to know how to force this to happen - can I perhaps just manually create a libz.la file following the format of the other *.la's in the same directory.

If so, can anyone tell me the libraries upon which zlib depends - I have to put this into the file.

I continue to welcome any help in this matter

L