[Python-Dev] zlib module build failure on Mac OSX 10.4.7

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Sat Jul 1 05:32:01 CEST 2006


Just upgraded my Mac to OSX 10.4.7 yesterday.  svn up'd Python trunk, then
"make clean ; configure ; make" and I see that building the zlib module
fails:

    gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/./Include -I/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/./Mac/Include -I/Users/skip/local/include -I../Include -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Include -I/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/build -c /Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/zlibmodule.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/zlibmodule.o
    /Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/zlibmodule.c: In function 'PyZlib_uncopy':
    /Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/zlibmodule.c:724: warning: implicit declaration of function 'inflateCopy'
    gcc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/Users/skip/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/zlibmodule.o -L/Users/skip/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lz -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/zlib.so -Wl,-search_paths_first
    *** WARNING: renaming "zlib" since importing it failed: dlopen(build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/zlib.so, 2): Symbol not found: _inflateCopy
      Referenced from: build/lib.macosx-10.3-ppc-2.5/zlib.so
      Expected in: dynamic lookup

Anybody else seen this?  I checked the buildbot trunk osx 10.4.  It seemed
to have no trouble.  And what's with the "10.3" bit in the directory names?

Skip



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