[Zope-DB] Installing MySQLdb

[Le grande pinguin]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:13:46AM +0430, Mahdi Hajimoradi wrote:
> Hi
> I want to install MySQLdb.I've recieed the folloing error after install the driver:
> ...creating build/temp.linux-i586-1.5
> gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/python1.5 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.linux-i586-1.5/_mysql.o
> gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i586-1.5/_mysql.o -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -o build/lib.linux-i586-1.5/_mysql.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
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> This in my Configuration:
> Python 1.5.2 
> mysql 3.23.41(I'ev install it via rpm)
> RedHat 7.2
> MySQL-python-0.9.1
> ZMySQLDA 2.0.8
> 
> Could you help to do this?

Well, as your linker happily told you, your system is missing the z-compression library
(' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz '). Either it's not installed (hard to belive) or it's in an
unusual place. I'm not a RedHat expert so i can't really tell you what exact rpm to install.

 Ralf Mattes

> TNX in Adbvance
> --M. Hajimoradi
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