Hank, I'm still not succeeding in building Mailman. I'd like to follow another path. Can you explain why Tcl/TK don't build? The Python make install command fatals there, and doesn't complete copying some of the modules into the right places.
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The esteemed David Devereaux-Weber has said: >> Hank, >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> I installed Python 2.4.4. I did receive errors that tcl and something >> else didn't install. Now, the Mailman install script still finds >> /opt/csw/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213 . Can you tell me where >> Python 2.4.4 puts the distutils? >> >> Dave >> > If you built python 2.4.4 to install in /usr/local, you should have a > /usr/local/lib/python2.4 directory that has the distutils in it. > > I assume you're building Mailman 2.1.9 from downloaded source; if not, > I recommend you do that, rather than using somebody else's prebuilt > source. > > Make sure the correct python is in your PATH. If you've already built > Mailman with the /opt/csw python2.3, do a make clean, rerun configure, > make, and make install on Mailman. > > As I've said, /opt/csw is not a Solaris 10 directory, but is used by > one or more of the package prebuilders. I would do an audit on what > is in that directory and pkgrm anything you don't actually need on > your system. > > Using the Solaris release sendmail and apache works well, but I'd > build Python 2.4.4 and Mailman 2.1.9 from source. The default gid for > sendmail is "other" and for apache is "nobody", for the Mailman > configure script on Solaris 9/10. > > Hank -- David Devereaux-Weber, P.E. DDW Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608)576-2599 <http://ddwsvcs.com> ------------------------------------------------------ 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