diff --git a/mysql/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml b/mysql/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
index 2e0c1c4..023155d 100644
--- a/mysql/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
+++ b/mysql/MySQLdb-FAQ.sgml
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/mysql/libs python ... # Bourne-ish shell
 linking against an earlier version. You may also have more than one version
 installed. Get Python 1.5.2 from your vendor or python.org.
 
+<sect1>ImportError: ./_mysqlmodule.so: undefined symbol: uncompress
 <sect1>./_mysqlmodule.c:33: mysql.h: No such file or directory
+<P>
+It seems that MySQL-3.23 client libraries require libz for gzip
+compression. Add -lz to the link line in Setup.
 
 <P>The include path (-I) to your MySQL include files is wrong; modify
 Setup. OR: You don't have the MySQL development stuff loaded. If you
diff --git a/mysql/Setup.in b/mysql/Setup.in
index e96b82c..ba0612a 100644
--- a/mysql/Setup.in
+++ b/mysql/Setup.in
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 # If you have dynamic MySQL libraries, they will need to be on your
 # LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.
 _mysql _mysqlmodule.c -L/usr/lib/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql -lmysqlclient
+
+# I find that 3.23 requires libz.
+_mysql _mysqlmodule.c -L/usr/lib/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
+
 # Uncomment for Windows
 #_mysql _mysqlmodule.c -L/mysql/lib/opt -I/mysql/include -lmysqlclient -lwsock32