Error "could not find htslib" Reported During Cufflinks Compilation

Symptom

The error message "could not find htslib" is displayed during Cufflinks compilation.

Key Process and Cause Analysis

The built-in HTSlib of SAMtools is used, which is not supported in the current version.

Conclusion and Solution

Run the following commands to install HTSlib independently and copy the generated libhts.* file to the lib directory:

tar -xvf htslib-1.9.tar.bz2

cd htslib-1.9

make

cp libhts.* /usr/local/lib