Error when building 3p-libxml: "./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `gzopen64'"

mv -f .deps/xmllint.Tpo .deps/xmllint.Po

/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls  -m32 -L${PARENT_DIR}/3p-libxml/stage/packages/lib/release -o xmllint xmllint.o ./libxml2.la  -lz  -lm  

libtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -m32 -o .libs/xmllint xmllint.o  -L${PARENT_DIR}/3p-libxml/stage/packages/lib/release ./.libs/libxml2.so -ldl -lz -lm -Wl,-rpath -Wl,${PARENT_DIR}/3p-libxml/stage/lib

./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `gzopen64'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make[2]: *** [xmllint] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `${PARENT_DIR}/3p-libxml/libxml2-2.7.8'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `${PARENT_DIR}/3p-libxml/libxml2-2.7.8'

make: *** [all] Error 2

ERROR: building default configuration returned 2

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