This is how I got it to work and there maybe an issue here:
using the BUILD/compile-pentium64-max, changed the changed the extra_configs="$pentium_configs $max_configs $static_link" to  extra_configs="$pentium_configs $max_configs" (notice the static_link is removed). It is trying to link with --all-static (thus it needs zlib.a libssl.a .....), which is a pain in the ars, I'm wondering if this is an issue for the build team. I believe this is the only *max that has the static_link. libtool ... uses --all-static which leads to the gcc -static ....-lz -lpthread, anything on the commandline after the -static MUST be statically linked thus is not found in my case. Have confirmed this on two different fedora core 10 - 64-bit systems.

Anyways thanks all for the input. I finally have a build - on to the next..................

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Don Kehn <dekehn@gmail.com> wrote:
Got the ncurses development libs loaded - intersting if I do a 32-bit version all works as it should, but when I do a ./BUILDcompile-pentium64-max I start seeing the -lz error. I feel like this is a library malfunction.


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org> wrote:
Don Kehn <dekehn@gmail.com> writes:

> display.c:(.text+0x282): undefined reference to `tputs'

This sounds like you are missing curses development libraries.

On my machine (Ubuntu Hardy), I think they are in the package libncurses5-dev.

Hopefully this will get you one step further.

(Btw, on Ubuntu/Debian, a quick shortcut to get all required dependencies
installed is the following:

   sudo apt-get build-dep mysql-server

Maybe your system has something similar).

 - Kristian.