test_zlib currently fails on Ubuntu Lucid:

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FAIL: test_library_version (test.test_zlib.VersionTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stefan/pydev/cpython/Lib/test/test_zlib.py", line 24, in test_library_version
    self.assertEqual(zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, zlib.ZLIB_VERSION)
AssertionError: '1.2.3.3' != '1.2.5'
- 1.2.3.3
+ 1.2.5

Do you have a self-compiled version of zlib (1.2.5) installed on this
system? It looks like this is due to a (benign) version mismatch between
zlib.h and the actual shared lib.

New changeset a5f8611ce81d by Nadeem Vawda in branch 'default':
Issue #13862: Relax zlib version test to avoid spurious failures.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a5f8611ce81d

Either way, the failure should be fixed now.

Thanks! There was a 32-bit 1.2.5 version in /usr/local/lib and
a 64-bit 1.2.3.3 version in /lib.

gcc picks up the header from /usr/local/include, while ld is smart
enough to choose the 64-bit version. So it was a multilib issue.


While this is not the most robust setup, it's very convenient on
a dev machine, so I'm glad that this is fixed.