'make' fails if lzma.h not found, and even after 'lzma' package is installed about compress-raw-lzma

[jkeenan]

My next idea was to install the lzma-dev package. I did install that package, but got no better results with the make stage of installing this distribution.

[pmqs]

Very strange. My dev box is one of the Ubuntu variants, so should be the same as you.

The lzma.h file should be under /usr/include

$ locate lzma.h
/usr/include/lzma.h
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/filter/lzma.hpp
/usr/share/doc/liblzma-dev/html/structlzma__options__lzma.html
/usr/src/linux-headers-6.2.0-23/include/linux/decompress/unlzma.h
/usr/src/linux-headers-6.2.0-25/include/linux/decompress/unlzma.h

that files comes from liblzma-dev

$ apt-file search /usr/include/lzma.h
liblzma-dev: /usr/include/lzma.h          

I see you have installed lzma-dev rather than liblzma-dev. That doesn't appear to have lzma.h

$ apt-file list lzma-dev | grep lzma.h

What is the different with these two package?

$ apt-cache show lzma-dev | grep Homepage
Homepage: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

$ apt-cache show liblzma-dev | grep Homepage
Homepage: https://tukaani.org/xz/

So lzma-dev is sourced from 7-zip, while liblzma-dev comes from the xz site (which is the one I need). Suspect the z-zip package got squatters rights on the lzma-dev name, so xz had to use something else.

Can you give liblzma-dev a try?

If that works I'll add a note in the README.

[jkeenan]

Can you give liblzma-dev a try?

Yes, that was what was needed. On both Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Debian 11 I called:

$ sudo apt install liblzma-dev
$ cpan Compress::Raw::Lzma (against perl-5.38.0)

and got a successful installation. See, e.g.,:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ff0a7b82-250b-11ee-8159-d134f6fb6917

[pmqs]

Excellent. Fix b2d20bb push to GH to update README