From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Mar 19 15:26:40 2017 Received: (at 26136) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Mar 2017 19:26:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35464 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpgTQ-0002vL-06 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:40 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:58666) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpgTO-0002vD-OW for 26136@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:39 -0400 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BD220771; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=famulari.name; h= cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=F2wZ9MwEYxs6KaTpCpLkajheXgU=; b=GyyX5t SoHc3++RlWipsEhYMjqKmyi3o9FBWWDNHj2I8V6gU+PJVfJh7wWigrYm/4Dydnbk 0yaQb3R0VGtIeHjycoAFxhaIfeKP0N8JQya6o+WU8w1q4GiSZCxMcPNcZScJ5YbR ZJjKjRWb2mQcbXYFhCTR9R2EwR/zs0J5xAAL8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=F2wZ9MwEYxs6KaTpCp LkajheXgU=; b=UkoT6j/IDY6GcNbtYmUPI4PB2T02V6p0kjcwpyTuydaQkT90Nb WzFzJN0H/w5weTyKCDaCuRqk9tamG8oSuLcJFl56LCAsqAlJMcA0xPLgJ3W71Cxt xo5lRhh15WlMT68X4BVD+8s7+ogK1GRiyb78w/xHFrYtNP9GkZd+af+sAood0m3y dCIPXRe5QtcrIsAjiUe4uJbMPoZnM5q04cv3q6wu6cXZpHxDWZNMS1g0YtE25hIZ 6JeWC0VbZODMnLwuyzqDGyzBqYV/lySkoL9B4MZKSsOYwj6gppKbbn6xGuHC4Orn Bwh6JxcKWO0nDmZ049l0/RZewFpMsfnEbMvA== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: CaGTC8x8DBOkfcieaxyP8j+Gbn6i4fEe+BB5NrPFaFR1 1489951596 Received: from localhost (c-73-188-17-148.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.188.17.148]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DD9EC7E336; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:36 -0400 From: Leo Famulari To: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing zlib Message-ID: <20170319192636.GA16604@jasmine> References: <20170317014622.GA27842@jasmine> <20170317150851.56e225f0@scratchpost.org> <20170318172601.GA2721@jasmine> <20170318211901.35ed1744@scratchpost.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170318211901.35ed1744@scratchpost.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 26136 Cc: 26136@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) 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 :)