Build fails on Debian 12 - ldconfig not found && libz.so not found

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Build fails when attempting on Debian 12 Bullseye.

$ uname -a
Linux debian 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ make build
bash: line 1: ldconfig: command not found
[...]
Compiling libyamlscript.core
Compiling 1 source files to /home/sean/projects/yamlscript/libyamlscript/target/classes
Created /home/sean/projects/yamlscript/libyamlscript/target/libyamlscript-0.1.87.jar
Created /home/sean/projects/yamlscript/libyamlscript/target/libyamlscript-0.1.87-standalone.jar
Makefile:53: *** *** The 'libz.so' library is required by native-image but not installed.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sean/projects/yamlscript/libyamlscript'
make: *** [Makefile:123: build-libyamlscript] Error 2

This library is available, though under a different package name.

# apt install libz-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'zlib1g-dev' instead of 'libz-dev'
zlib1g-dev is already the newest version (1:1.2.13.dfsg-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

After editing common/vars.mk....

$ git diff common/vars.mk
diff --git a/common/vars.mk b/common/vars.mk
index 1a475e9f..c3d235fa 100644
--- a/common/vars.mk
+++ b/common/vars.mk
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ ifeq (0,$(shell id -u))
 endif
 endif

-LIBZ := false
-ifeq (true,$(IS_MACOS))
-  LIBZ := true
-else
-ifneq (,$(shell ldconfig -p | grep $$'^\tlibz.so'))
-  LIBZ := true
-endif
-endif
+LIBZ := true
+#ifeq (true,$(IS_MACOS))
+#  LIBZ := true
+#else
+#ifneq (,$(shell ldconfig -p | grep $$'^\tlibz.so'))
+#  LIBZ := true
+#endif
+#endif

 CURL := $(shell command -v curl)

$ make build
[...]
Finished generating 'ys-0.1.87' in 50.5s.

Note that ldconfig is of course available at /usr/sbin/ldconfig, but /usr/sbin is not in PATH by default.

$ file /usr/sbin/ldconfig
/usr/sbin/ldconfig: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), static-pie linked, BuildID[sha1]=5569421f5525e32b155516a5e9c36fa03cb27f19, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

$ head /etc/profile
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH