Good Afternoon Grant:
Please correct the 'makefile' in the bigBedNamedItems
directory to read:
kentSrc = ../..
A = bigBedNamedItems
include $(kentSrc)/inc/userApp.mk
L += -lm -lz
Your 'makefile' is probably missing the -lz on the L += line.
It was updated after the most recent source code release.
--Hiram