Fails to install on Fedora Core 5

[mnsummerfield]

BPO	1562171

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title = 'Fails to install on Fedora Core 5'
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[mnsummerfield]

I am using an up-to-date version of Fedora Core 5.
: gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)

configure
I ran ./configure --prefix=/home/mark/opt/python25 and
this ran without problems.

Makefile
I hand edited the Makefile to add -fwrapv to the
BASECFLAGS as per the README file since I don't know
how to add flags using configure.

make
make worked fine

make test
This reported some failures, but nothing that seems
significant:
...
test_zipfile
test_zipfile64
test_zipfile64 skipped -- test requires loads of
disk-space bytes and a long time to run
test_zipimport
test_zlib
281 tests OK.
38 tests skipped:
test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb
test_bsddb185
test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn
test_codecmaps_hk
test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr
test_codecmaps_tw test_curses
test_dbm test_gdbm test_gl test_imgfile
test_linuxaudiodev
test_macfs test_macostools test_nis test_normalization
test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_plistlib
test_scriptpackages
test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sqlite
test_startfile
test_sunaudiodev test_timeout test_urllib2net
test_urllibnet
test_winreg test_winsound test_zipfile64
3 skips unexpected on linux2:
test_dbm test_gdbm test_bsddb

make install
This failed.
...
Compiling
/home/mark/opt/python25/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py ...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1

Just in case for some reason a dbm is needed I
installed gdbm-devel and retried but the installation
still failed in the same place.

[nnorwitz]

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This seems weird. Did you run out of disk space? Is the
error reproducible (ie, fail in the same place each time)?
Can you debug this further? The tests do a make install and
I don't recall seeing this error.

[mnsummerfield]

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I didn't run out of disk space, I've 28GB free...
I did try several times, (including make clean, rerun
configure, make, make tests, and make install), and yes, it
always failed in the same place.
And just to make really sure, I have just tried the whole
process again. I deleted my Python-2.5 directory, unpacked
the whole thing again, ran configure, added -fwrapv to the
Makefile, and ran make and make test. This time make test
had only one "unexpected" skipped test:
...
test_zipfile
test_zipfile64
test_zipfile64 skipped -- test requires loads of disk-space
bytes and a long time to run
test_zipimport
test_zlib
283 tests OK.
36 tests skipped:
test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb
test_bsddb185
test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn
test_codecmaps_hk
test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw
test_curses
test_gl test_imgfile test_linuxaudiodev test_macfs
test_macostools
test_nis test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277
test_plistlib test_scriptpackages test_socket_ssl
test_socketserver test_sqlite test_startfile
test_sunaudiodev
test_timeout test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg
test_winsound test_zipfile64
1 skip unexpected on linux2:
test_bsddb

Next I ran make install... and it worked!
Maybe there's some dependency on having a dbm of some sort?
Anyway, sorry for the false alarm.