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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The esteemed David Devereaux-Weber has said: > >> I'm having a problem with building mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. No problems >> with configure or make, but make install breaks. >> >> Here is an extract: >> >> /opt/csw/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: >> > > There's your problem. > >> Does anyone see something here? >> >> > You're using the wrong Python. I don't know where you got this Python > (/opt/csw is not a Solaris 10 directory), but it's behaving the same > as the Python 2.3 that is in the Solaris 10 distribution installed in > /usr/sfw. My recollection is that /opt/csw is being used by one or > more prebuilt services who have religious tabus about using > /usr/local, and presume you've downloaded a prebuilt Python package > and installed it. > > Download the Python 2.4.4 source (not 2.5 or later), configure, and > build that. It will not build completely, but what doesn't build > (tcl and the ssl functions) isn't needed for Mailman. Solaris 10 > comes with gcc 3.4.2 in /usr/sfw/bin, which can be used to build both > Python and Mailman. > > When you've got Python 2.4.4 built and installed, use "which python" > to make sure it's the first one in your path. > /usr/local/bin/python > > Also, on a Solaris system (all versions), I strongly recommend > renaming /usr/ucb/cc to something else so that configure scripts don't > think the system has a working cc. That particular cc is a shell > script stub that is there for historical reasons dating from the > original SVR4 specification in 1988. > > If you have downloaded and installed the Sun development system > (Studio 11 is the current marketing name for it) that installs by > default in /opt/SUNWspro, use that cc and CC instead of the GNU stuff. > Note that you'll have to force the configure scripts not to use gcc > when you run them. > > Hank > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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