[Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

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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.

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