Ronald, Bob, I know Skip found and fixed his problem, however, is this problem likely to affect other users? Is there anything we can do to help alleviate/diagnose this problem?
n -- On 7/1/06, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> What I don't understand yet is why your copy of libz doesn't have > >> inflateCopy. > > > > What I don't understand is that configure does not detect that. > > You may be onto something there. Skip, do you have another copy of > libz somewhere? Given the link line in your first message either in / > usr/local/lib or /Users/skip/local/lib. And if you have, is that a > static library (libz.a) instead of a dylib? > > As background to my question: the linker on OSX behaves slightly > different than the one on most other unix-y systems. It first > searches the entire linker path for shared libraries (dylibs) before > looking for static libraries. I added a flag to the link flags for > the zlib extension a while back that changes the search order into a > more traditional one: look in every directory on the linker path for > either a dylib or static library. The new flag is -Wl,- > search_paths_first. > > If skip does indeed have libz somewhere else we'll either have to > make a matching update to configure, or roll back my change. If the > latter I'll have to tweak the build script for the binary installer > for OSX because I want to link that using a static copy of libz for > binary compatibility with OSX 10.3.9. > > Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/nnorwitz%40gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
