I need help compiling on Mandrake 8.0

[Thomas Stuart]

Hi

I just installed Mandrake 8 and now I want to get some work done. However, 
neither old RedHat RPMS nor compiling myself seems to work. When I run 
./configure I get several messages like this in the config.log. In 
desperation I have installed the glibc 2.1 compatibility libraries, but I 
can't seem to find a way to force configure to ignore the glibc 2.2.2 ones.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks
Thomas 
>>> config.log >>>

configure:5787: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -g conftest.c -ldl -lz -lm  1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 5770 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#ifdef TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <time.h>
#else
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
#include <sys/time.h>
#else
#include <time.h>
#endif
#endif
int main() {
struct timeval time; struct timezone dummy;
  gettimeofday (&time, &dummy);
; return 0; }



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