Jesper Dybdal wrote: > >I think you've diagnosed the problem. There is a pythonlib directory, >but it is empty. > >I built Mailman as user "root" (knowing perfectly well that this is not >the thing to do unless you choose to trust your software providers), but >I ran "make install" as user "mailman" in order to ensure that the >resulting files would have the correct owner.
This is backwards from the normal installation. It doesn't matter what user does the configure (and make if you did both make and make install), but normally, make install is run as root. Root ends up owning most everything this way, but that doesn't matter as all the directories are SETGID and everything ends up in the 'mailman' group which is what counts. >I'll have a further look at the install procedure, but if you have any >idea how it could have failed, I'd really like to hear about it. Try to cd to the misc/ subdirectory of the directory that you unpacked and configured in and run make install-packages in that directory. Note that depending on your exact C compiler, it is possible to get thousands of warnings similar to src/_koco_uhc.h:3007: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness. These are harmless, but for this reason, it is a good idea to do something like make install-packages 2>make.error.log so you can sift through the error output and find any errors that might otherwise be lost amongst those warnings. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
