I'm trying to install Mailman 2.1.6 on a Solaris 8 machine. There seems to be a rather strange error and I'm not sure if it's a misconfiguration of my machine or a problem with Mailman.
I had no problem with 'configure' or with 'make'. I *did* use gcc -- there is a "cc" binary on the system, but the Sun compiler is *not* present, and this was no problem during the compile phase. However, when I got to 'make install' it seems there is a problem. The install process seems to want to call "cc", even though it was not specified or used in either 'configure' or 'make'. Here is the error I get: 8<---start------------------------------------------------------ (cd ./$p ; umask 02 ; PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib /opt/csw/bin/python setup.py --quiet install --install-lib /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib --install-purelib /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib --install-data /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib); \ done /opt/csw/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution option is deprecated; use 'license' warnings.warn(msg) /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-packages' Current working directory /export/home/users/steve/mailman-2.1.6/misc *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall' 8<----stop----------------------------------------------- The error message from "cc" is the message that you get because the Sun compiler is not installed. But why is it being called? I've tried taking /usr/ucb out of the path so that there is no "cc" binary available, but then I get the error that there is no "cc". OK, here's a workaround, but it's ugly. I put a symlink pointing cc to gcc and then made sure /usr/ucb was not in the path. I got some warnings: cc1: warning: "-Wno-deprecated" is valid for C++ but not C/ObjC but the install finished. It really sounds like there is something in the Mailman install procedure that has "cc" hard coded. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp