I also thought about the same, but was looking for 'libz' package...

2005/10/11, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
>
> > I got the same, made libz.la manually - copied one of the existing .la
> > files (libpng.la), edited it with the obvious values and then created
> > the four necessary links to the libraries in /usr/lib. It is currently
> > compiling. I have no idea why this was in the first place.
>
> >> grep: /usr/pkgsrc/net/ntop/work/.buildlink/lib/libz.la: No such file o=
r
> >> directory
>
> I assume that the developer testing net/ntop used zlib from
> pkgsrc/devel/zlib, but you are using native libz.
>
> Maybe we need to have the buildlink framework generate a .la file.
>
> I have carbon-copied this email to tech-pkg. Maybe continue discussion
> there instead.
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
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