Re: Building 13.1-rc2 Error During Phase 4 pkgconf

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 20:36 Bruce Dubbs <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/17/26 10:04 PM, Stephan Hunker ([email protected] via
> lfs-support
> Mailing List) wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > During a test build of 13.1-rc2, I have the error below which indicates
> that gzip.py
> > is trying to import zlib.py, and failing. When I poke around in the
> python source
> > directory (/usr/lib/python3), I see that in fact gzip.py exists, and
> zlib.py does not.
> >
> > Any ideas on the best path forward here? Do I need to download or
> otherwise obtain
> > the zlib.py module? Is there a make flag or similar that I can (or
> should) use to
> > ignore this?
>
> What package are you trying to build?  From the last line below it appears
> to be
> pkgconf-3.0.5.  Note that we build gzip-1.14 in Chapter 6 and zlib-1.3.2
> in Chapter
> 7.  We also build zlib again in Chapter 8 before pkgconf.  Did you miss a
> package?
>
>    -- Bruce


Hi Bruce, yes, I mistakenly forgot to reinstall zlib in chapter 7 (I
followed up my email once I’d realized this). I went back and reinstalled
it and am trying the build again. Thank you.

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