/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64

I have seen people complaining about this cropping up on Ubuntu systems. I noticed this morning that the torkalot build was failing on new Slackware VM's and again, it was this error:

/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64

The solution is pretty simple - I just removed all references to libz under /usr/lib as follows:

rm /usr/lib/libz*

Re running the compile then worked just fine. Note: don't try doing this before compiling anything which is going to statically link to those libraries.. zlib being an example of something which won't compile without the libz objects in place.


christo