On 03/06/2015 08:08 AM, Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha wrote: > Hi, > I started working for mailman. As a first step I downloaded the > source code of mailman2.1.19.
If you're doing this for a GSoC Project, you should be working with Mailman 3, not Mailman 2.1. > When I'm trying ./configure, it is > showing the following error. > > checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error: > > ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python > ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) > ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python > ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for > ***** details > > > I installed Distutils, but still it is showing the error what happens if you do $ python >>> import distutils.errors >>> import distutils.sysconfig >>> x = distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars() > and when I try the command > > % useradd -c’’GNU Mailman’’ -s /no/shell -d /no/home -g mailman mailman This is an error in the manual, now fixed in the online versions. The command should be useradd -c"GNU Mailman" -s /no/shell -d /no/home -g mailman mailman -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
