Hi all,

I'd like run HTTrack 3.44.1 on a Suse 11 system using the command line
version, but I'm running into some problems when building it from the sources,
maybe because I don't have root privileges on that system.

First of all, when running 'configure' it stops with "error: either specify a
valid zlib installation with --with-zlib=DIR or disable zlib usage with
--without-zlib".

Q1: What do I need zlib for? Can I safely omit it?
Even though I don't know if I need zlib, I tried 'configure --without-zlib'
(exits without errors) and subsequently ran 'make', but that quits with
"htszlib.h:43:18: Error: zlib.h: File or directory not found".

Q2: If I want to 'make' without zlib, what do I have to do? I thought
'configure' prepares it all...

Since it seems to be impossible (for me) to compile without zlib, I tried to
find it on the Suse host, but I had no success.

Q3: How can I figure out if zlib comes with Suse 11 and where it is
installed?
Finally I downloaded zlib's sources and 'make'd it successfully into my
$HOME/bin/ directory (no 'make install' since I don't have root rights!) and
found libz.so.1.2.5. there. I thought that this shared object is what
HTTrack's 'make' tries to bind, so I passed its directory into 'configure
--with-zlib=DIR' but again 'configure' failed.

Q4: What's the DIR value for --with-zlib when not having zlib 'install'ed but
compiled on my own?
I'm pretty much stuck and desperately looking for some help.

Thx a lot,
Willy