pdfedit for Fedora 16

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:59 +0800, nathan wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 07:38 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 02/16/2012 09:44 PM, Cristian Sava wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We needed pdfedit for Fedora 16 and is not avaiable anymore.
> >> It is present in Fedora<= 15
> >> It was easy to rebuild pdfedit-0.4.5-4.fc16.x86_64.rpm and it works
> >> well.
> >> So the question: why was it discontinued for Fedora users?
> > It was orphaned by the maintainer and noone else stepped up.  Apparently
> > it has bugs and upstream is inactive.
> >
> > Rahul
> I downloaded pdfedit pdfedit-0.4.5.tar.bz2 and try to build it by make.
> after ./configure. I was informed
> ...............
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking if zlib is wanted... configure: error: libz not found
> ................
> . I check the zlib with rpm -qa zlib, the system inform that 
> pdfedit-0.4.5.tar.bz2 exists.
> who tell me why, and how to do?

You might need libz-devel (or whatever it's called).

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