[Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

[Nathan Yergler]

Looks like you're using a build of Python that wasn't compiled with
zlib support (--with-zlib, IIRC).

2009/10/16 ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com>:
> I've just downloaded and configured the Distribute buildbot and it appears that a dependency is missing somewhere.  I get this (just the errors excerpted).
>
> Just wanted to capture this before I figure out what needs to be done...
>
> test_make_tarball (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'requires zlib'
> test_make_zipfile (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib'
> test_tarfile_root_owner (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib'
> test_tarfile_vs_tar (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... skipped 'Requires zlib'
>
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test_make_archive_owner_group (distutils.tests.test_archive_util.ArchiveUtilTestCase)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py", line 224, in test_make_archive_owner_group
>    group=group)
>  File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py", line 236, in make_archive
>    filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs)
>  File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py", line 163, in make_zipfile
>    compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
>  File "/home/ssteiner/distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python/Lib/zipfile.py", line 675, in __init__
>    "Compression requires the (missing) zlib module"
> RuntimeError: Compression requires the (missing) zlib module
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 158 tests in 1.242s
>
> FAILED (errors=1, skipped=11)
> test test_distutils crashed -- <type 'exceptions.OSError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 767, in runtest_inner
>  File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 723, in __exit__
>  File "Lib/test/regrtest.py", line 686, in get_cwd
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 1 test failed:
>    test_distutils
>
>
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