Oct. 16, 2009
11:39 p.m.
On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@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. 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. S