Hi All, Happy New Year to all of you! i encounterd some compilation errors when compiling freeradius-1.0.5 on solaris 8. below is the errors. /usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.5-pi/libtool --mode=link gcc -release 1.0.5 \ -module -export-dynamic -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -I/usr/local/ssl/include -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -W -Wredundant-decls -Wundef -I../.. -I../../../../include \ -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.5-pi/libltdl -o rlm_sql_mysql.la -rpath /usr/local/radius5/lib sql_mysql.lo -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lnsl -lresolv -lsocket -lposix4 -lpthread -lz -lnsl -lresolv -lsocket -lposix4 -lpthread -lz rm -fr .libs/rlm_sql_mysql.la .libs/rlm_sql_mysql.* .libs/rlm_sql_mysql-1.0.5.* /usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -h rlm_sql_mysql-1.0.5.so -o .libs/rlm_sql_mysql-1.0.5.so sql_mysql.lo -R/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -R/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2 -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so -lnsl -lresolv -lsocket -lposix4 -lpthread -lz -lnsl -lresolv -lsocket -lposix4 -lpthread -lz -lc ld: fatal: library -lz: not found ld: fatal: library -lz: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/rlm_sql_mysql-1.0.5.so make[10]: *** [rlm_sql_mysql.la] Error 1 make[10]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.5-pi/src/modules/rlm_sql/drivers/rlm_sql_mysql' what's 'library -lz not found'? i've no idea what's this library. is it caused by missing of certain packages? if so, which package should i install? pls advise. thanks in advance! Rgds, Pang