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Aha! that seems to have cracked it - the MySQL header files weren't in the /usr/include directory. I copied them there, and it all seems to work now!

many, many thanks!

Giles.

There are two copies: /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a /usr/local/mysql-standard-4.0.14-pc-linux-i686/lib/libmysqlclient.a The one in /usr/lib... is one I copied there from the MySQL directory (the second location, where the rest of MySQL is). There is also a symbolic link in place from /usr/local ...

I've tried this again - this is the output from configure: [root@starlight zm-1.21.4]# ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/zm/cgi-bin checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes ...

I used ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local , since MySQL is installed at /usr/local/mysql. Was this wrong?

Giles.

Hi, Apologies for what is probably a stoopid question, but I cannot get ZM to build... I am using ZM 1.21.4 and mySQL 4.0.14 on a RedHat 8.0 box. However, every time I try to run the configure script, it falls over claiming tht it can't find libmysqlclient.a The file *is* there, in the libs ...