[Python-Dev] zlib module build failure on Mac OSX 10.4.7

[Neal Norwitz]

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
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On 7/1/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> 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
>
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