From: guido at eric.cnri.reston.va.us (Guido van Rossum)
Date: 19 Apr 1999 11:13:50 -0400
Subject: Python-1.5.2 testing zlib
References: <UTC199904180107.DAA05335@hera.cwi.nl> <mark.924510716@declan>
Message-ID: <5l7lr8tzgx.fsf@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>
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piers at cs.su.oz.au (Piers Lauder) writes:
> My "make check" fails with a core dump after "test_zlib".

mark at chem.uwa.edu.au (Mark C Favas) replies:
> Works just fine for me on both DEC Alpha
[..]
> These are both with zlib-1.1.3.

Yes, the new zlib uses features of zlib 1.1.3 that aren't supported by
zlib 1.0.4, so you must use 1.1.3 or later.

This is documented in the source but easily overseen; unfortunately we
didn't think of putting in a version number test.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)




