On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:01:16 +0000, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a brand new joiner to notmuch ('course so is nearly everyone).

Hi Scot, welcome to notmuch!

> I just tried compiling, and I see:
> 
> 1.  g++ is also a 'dependency' though ./configure didn't catch it.

Oh, good point. I did assume you at least had a functional compiler. But
yeah, the configure script should actually check for that I suppose.

> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [notmuch] Error 1

This was answered well already. It's really a packaging but of GMime,
(since *it* depends on libz, so notmuch depends on it indirectly, but
doesn't actually need to link directly with libz as GMime is instructing
us to do so here).

-Carl