Rj Clay wrote to Andrew Leary:   
      
   RC>  That turned to be just the not so unusual case of missing some dev    
   RC> packages;   
   RC> once I installed the libbz2-dev and libz-dev packages, I had no problem    
   RC> doing the manual install and compile.   
      
   The ./configure script should adjust for those libraries being missing and   
   disable the use of compression.  What changed in Debian 8 that broke the   
   ./configure script?   
      
   Andrew   
      
   RC>    
      
       Greetings, Andrew Leary   
      
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