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I am building subversion from source but always see the output files depend on the system-supplied zlib which is way older than the one I want to use.
What I did was this:
./configure --with-apr=/somedir/apr --with-apr-util=/somedir/apr-util --with-sqlite=/somedir/sqlite
which gives me the error message that subversion requires zlib. So far so good. Then I do
./configure --with-apr=/somedir/apr --with-apr-util=/somedir/apr-util --with-sqlite=/somedir/sqlite --with-zlib=/somedir/zlib
which terminates with exit code 0. The messages on stdout look ok, but when I do make and make install, the created libraries will depend on the system-supplied zlib instead of the one I specified to use. Further, in config.log I can see these lines:
... $ ./configure --with-apr=/somedir/apr --with-apr-util=/somedir/apr-util --with-sqlite=/somedir/sqlite --with-zlib=/somedir/zlib ... Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --with-bugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux' --disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --program -suffix=-4.3 --enable-linux-futex --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --build=x86_64-suse-linux ... configure:22579: zlib library configuration via prefix configure:22585: checking zlib.h usability configure:22585: gcc -c -g -O2 -g -O2 -pthread -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/somedir/zlib/include conftest.c >&5 configure:22585: $? = 0 configure:22585: result: yes configure:22585: checking zlib.h presence configure:22585: gcc -E -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/somedir/zlib/include conftest.c configure:22585: $? = 0 configure:22585: result: yes configure:22585: checking for zlib.h configure:22585: result: yes configure:22593: checking for inflate in -lz configure:22618: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -g -O2 -pthread -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/somedir/zlib/include -L/somedir/openldap/lib -L/somedir/expat/lib -L/somedir/zlib/lib conftest.c -lz >&5 configure:22618: $? = 0 configure:22627: result: yes
So this is confusing for me. While the parameter I passed was recognized and the different checks on zlib were successful, the overall result is --with-system-zlib?
After make and make install, when I check the compiled libraries I get this output:
ldd libsvn_client-1.so
...
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc978e9f000)
...
This shows me that the system zlib library is indeed referenced. How would I compile subversion with zlib in a nonstandard location? Unfortunately the impact is that Apache, when used with SVN, has two different dependencies upon zlib which results in conflicts during runtime.