[Pytables-users] Undefined symbol: inflate on Fedora Core 3 x86_64

[John P. <jo...@pi...>]

Hi,

I'm having trouble installing PyTables 1.1 from the source tarball on my 
Fedora Core 3 x86_64 machine with Python 2.3.4.

To get the build to find my HDF5 libs, I had to change 'lib/lib' in 
setup.py to 'lib64/lib' to reflect the location of my HDF5, zlib, etc. 
libs.  The build seems to go OK, but when I try running the tests, I get 
the following:

$ python test_all.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test_all.py", line 166, in ?
     import tables
   File "/home/johnp/Desktop/pytables-1.1/tables/__init__.py", line 33, in ?
     from tables.utilsExtension import \
ImportError: /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.0: undefined symbol: inflate

I tried running h5ls and l5dump installed from a binary HDF5 RPM on the 
example HDF5 files, and they work OK.  According to ldd, they are linked 
to /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.0.

Any suggestions for how to fix this?  Is it a problem with my HDF5 
libraries?

Maybe unrelated:

If I do this in the tests directory:

$ ( for f in *.h5 ; do echo $f ; h5dump $f 2>&1 ; done ) | less

I see a message saying "h5dump error: unable to print data" after the 
"DATA {" line on every dataset with a name starting with "tuple".  Is 
that normal?

Thanks!

John