-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> 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. $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04" $ apt-cache search zlib | grep ^zlib.*dev zlib1g-dbg - compression library - development zlib1g-dev - compression library - development Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrZLbQACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6RTQCeIDYNZNJ/xp5owC4xva1wCtPP jqEAnAim9iziE6rXbHtoxvsy94ZUNis7 =MxaL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig