%general-entities; ]> Zlib This patch will add -fPIC to our build and allow us to build a static and shared library at the same time: patch -Np1 -i ../&zlib-fpic-patch; Prepare Zlib for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --shared Compile the package: make Install the package: make prefix=${CLFS}/usr install The previous command installed a .so file in ${CLFS}/usr/lib. We will move it into ${CLFS}/lib and then relink it to ${CLFS}/usr/lib: mv -v ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libz.so.* ${CLFS}/lib ln -sfv ../../lib/libz.so.1 ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libz.so Now we fix the permissions on the static library: chmod -v 644 ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libz.a Installed libraries libz.[a,so] Short Descriptions libz Contains compression and decompression functions used by some programs libz