Issue 36135: altinstall error Makefile:1140: recipe for target 'altinstall' failed (original) (raw)

#as directed in the README.rst file #doing a 'make altinstall' instead of install to install python3.7.2 along side other versions

....this is to be performed after './configure' 'make' and 'make test' commands. please refer issue 36134 :titled :: (two issues could be related) "test failure : test_re; recipe for target 'test' failed"

as there was also a make test failure prior to 'make altinstall'

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user@host $ make altinstall .... #... everything goes well.... #... process ends with this traceback

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/main.py", line 5, in sys.exit(ensurepip._main()) File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/init.py", line 204, in _main default_pip=args.default_pip, File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/init.py", line 117, in _bootstrap return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths) File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/init.py", line 27, in _run_pip import pip._internal zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available Makefile:1140: recipe for target 'altinstall' failed make: *** [altinstall] Error 1

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i do end up with a python 3.7 installation and still can't make sense of the failure.