On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 09:19:01PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >There is also the question about zlib and the bundled pip: why is it > >failing now? > > The above doesn't fix the pip zlib problem. It's very strange: The > value of the environment variable C_INCLUDE_PATH includes bzip2 but > not zlib. Might make python unable to find zlib. > > setup.py does some strange stuff with reading the zlib.h header file > manually - maybe that broke. Then it tries to find the library file > for libz. The value of the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH doesn't > contain zlib either.
Ideally, the minimal Python variants could use the bundled zlib found at 'Modules/zlib'. We sort of gave up on this with python-minimal@3 the last time we had this problem, but maybe we can solve it now :)
