Bill Anderson wrote: > I recently had this issue and discovered that if zlib headers are not > there, python still builds gzip ... which imports zlib. Seems to me that > since zlib apparently depends on gzip, gzip should only be built if zlib > is.
gzip is a Python module, and isn't "built". if zlib isn't available, importing gzip gives you an ImportError exception. if you remove gzip, you still get an ImportError exception. the only difference is that the former message tells you exactly what module you need to add. attempting to remove Python modules that may or may not work depending on what other modules are available or not when you run the Python installation scripts, in order to make the error message less informative, strikes me as some- what silly. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
