Hi Xavier,

thanks again, this really helped me get httrack compiled and running :-) 

Attached you find my final setup and procedure. I include it there for
reference to others running into the same problem. It may not be the 'normal'
setup, however for me it keeps everything uncluttered.

Btw: I think that there is a typo in HTTrack's configure script: in line 14810
it should be "zlib_cv_zlib_h=no" instead of "zlib_cvs_zlib_h=no", right?
Cheers,
Willy

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Final Setup & Prodcdure

I downloaded and unpacked zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz into $HOME/lib/zlib-1.2.5/lib,
changed to that directory and ran 'configure' and 'make' there. That produces
libz.so.1.2.5 and links it as libz.so . After that I copied all header files
(*.h) from that directory to $HOME/lib/zlib-1.2.5/include

Finally I changed to $HOME/bin/httrack-3.44.1 (results from unpacking
httrack-3.44.1.tar.gz in $HOME/bin), ran 'configure
--with-zlib=$HOME/lib/zlib-1.2.5' and 'make' there. That produces
$HOME/bin/httrack-3.44.1/src/httrack which is the executable file that I
want.

$HOME
|- lib
|  `- zlib-1.2.5
|     |- lib
|     |  |- configure
|     |  |- libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.5
|     |  |- libz.so.1.2.5
|     |  :
|      `- include
|        |- lib.h
|        :
`- bin
   `- httrack-3.44.1
      |- configure
      |- src
      :  |- httrack
         :