configure should verify that system zlib contains needed functionality

I get the following error trying to build JDK 9 on Solaris Sparcv9:

"/export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/buildlog/ci_executor/main/hs/jdk/src/java.desktop/share/native/libsplashscreen/libpng/pngrutil.c", line 453: warning: implicitly declaring function to return int: inflateValidate() (E_IMPLICIT_DECL_FUNC_RETURN_INT)
Undefined first referenced
 symbol in file
inflateValidate /export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/buildlog/ci_executor/main/hs/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/support/native/java.desktop/libsplashscreen/pngrutil.o
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors
gmake[3]: *** [/export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/buildlog/ci_executor/main/hs/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/support/modules_libs/java.desktop/libsplashscreen.so] Error 1
gmake[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gmake[2]: *** [java.desktop-libs] Error 1

ERROR: Build failed for target 'images' in configuration 'solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release' (exit code 2)

=== Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
* For target support_native_java.desktop_libsplashscreen_BUILD_LIBSPLASHSCREEN_link:
Undefined first referenced
 symbol in file
inflateValidate /export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/buildlog/ci_executor/main/hs/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/support/native/java.desktop/libsplashscreen/pngrutil.o
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors

* All command lines available in /export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/buildlog/ci_executor/main/hs/build/solaris-sparcv9-normal-server-release/make-support/failure-logs.
=== End of repeated output ===

The configuration is:

Configuration summary:
* Debug level: release
* HS debug level: product
* JDK variant: normal
* JVM variants: server
* OpenJDK target: OS: solaris, CPU architecture: sparc, address length: 64
* Version string: 9-labs+0-SNAPSHOT-20170223-220614 (9-labs)

Tools summary:
* Boot JDK: java version "1.8.0_111" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.71-b01-internal-jvmci-0.23, mixed mode) (at /export/home/graal/slave/t72a1_2/slavewd/downloads2/labsjdk-8u111-jvmci-0.23-solaris-sparcv9/labsjdk1.8.0_111-jvmci-0.23)
* Toolchain: solstudio (Oracle Solaris Studio)
* C Compiler: Version 5.13 (at /opt/solarisstudio12.4/bin/cc)
* C++ Compiler: Version 5.13 (at /opt/solarisstudio12.4/bin/CC)

Build performance summary:
* Cores to use: 240
* Memory limit: 491520 MB