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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26:36 -0400
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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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 :)