Mosh: Compiling mosh on CentOS 7: configure cannot find zlib

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[slu@localhost mosh]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for protoc... /usr/bin/protoc
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking whether C compiler accepts -fno-strict-overflow... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -fno-strict-overflow... yes
checking whether C compiler accepts -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2... yes
checking whether C compiler accepts -fstack-protector-all... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -fstack-protector-all... yes
checking whether C compiler accepts -Wstack-protector... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -Wstack-protector... yes
checking whether C compiler accepts --param ssp-buffer-size=1... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts --param ssp-buffer-size=1... yes
checking whether C compiler accepts -fPIE... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -fPIE... yes
checking whether the linker accepts -fPIE -pie... yes
checking whether the linker accepts -Wl,-z,relro... yes
checking whether the linker accepts -Wl,-z,now... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -fno-default-inline... yes
checking whether C++ compiler accepts -pipe... yes
checking for library containing utempter_remove_record... no
configure: WARNING: Unable to find libutempter; utmp entries will not be made.
checking for library containing compress... no
configure: error: Unable to find zlib.
[slu@localhost mosh]$ rpm -ql zlib
/usr/lib64/libz.so.1
/usr/lib64/libz.so.1.2.7
/usr/share/doc/zlib-1.2.7
/usr/share/doc/zlib-1.2.7/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zlib-1.2.7/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/zlib-1.2.7/README
[slu@localhost mosh]$ yum info zlib
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Installed Packages
Name        : zlib
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.2.7
Release     : 13.el7
Size        : 181 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : anaconda
Summary     : The compression and decompression library
URL         : http://www.zlib.net/
License     : zlib and Boost
Description : Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression
            : library which is used by many different programs.

Available Packages
Name        : zlib
Arch        : i686
Version     : 1.2.7
Release     : 13.el7
Size        : 90 k
Repo        : base/7/x86_64
Summary     : The compression and decompression library
URL         : http://www.zlib.net/
License     : zlib and Boost
Description : Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression
            : library which is used by many different programs.

Unfortunately I have no idea where to start unraveling this since configure is made with autoconf in this case.

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Maybe this is possibly relevant? I don't know.

I also did this: sudo yum group install "Development Tools". Made no difference.

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I fixed this particular issue, sudo yum install zlib-devel did the trick.

[bogdik]

sudo yum install zlib-static

[andersk]

@bogdik zlib-devel is the right package (unless you have some reason to statically link zlib; static linking has a number of caveats and is not generally recommended).

[bogdik]

@andersk on last compile, resolve this trouble only zlib-static packege, before help zlib-devel