[Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:39 AM, ssteinerX at gmail.com
<ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> IOW the way python is built in the bbot, is now using your system's
>>> zlib support...
>>
>> Arggg... I am the typo master...
>>
>> s/now/not.
>>
>> So as Tres said maybe Ubuntu ships with a Python with zlib support,
>> but doesn't provide zlib headers.
>
> Ok, so the python you build from the trunk checkout doesn't have zlib
> support.

Yup.

>
> I couldn't find an apt-get'able one, it looks like you have to build from
> source, but the lack of zlib support should be picked up before the unit
> tests fail.

Yes that's what I've fixed, so it should not fail anymore.

I'll digg in zlib at ubuntu support in any case.