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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