altinstall error Makefile:1140: recipe for target 'altinstall' failed

[apoos-maximus]

BPO	36135
Nosy	@matrixise, @tirkarthi, @apoos-maximus

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closed_at = <Date 2019-02-27.13:03:38.970>
created_at = <Date 2019-02-27.12:52:51.296>
labels = ['3.7', 'build', 'expert-installation']
title = "altinstall error Makefile:1140: recipe for target 'altinstall' failed"
updated_at = <Date 2019-02-27.13:58:50.777>
user = 'https://github.com/apoos-maximus'

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closed_date = <Date 2019-02-27.13:03:38.970>
closer = 'matrixise'
components = ['Installation']
creation = <Date 2019-02-27.12:52:51.296>
creator = 'apoos-maximus'
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issue_num = 36135
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'rejected'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'compile error'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue36135'
versions = ['Python 3.7']

[apoos-maximus]

#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 bpo-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'

-------terminal--------------

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 <module>
    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.

[matrixise]

fix your compilation with the zlib headers

zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

not related to python itself.

[tirkarthi]

This might help : https://devguide.python.org/setup/#install-dependencies