On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Move that whole directory and all its contents to /usr/local/src/mailman.
AIUI, Mailman is not designed to be run from the source directory, and by
default it installs into /usr/local/mailman. So you're trying to
overwrite the source with itself, usually a bad idea for a number of
reasons.
Stephen,
That's amazing! The installation instructions need to be changed to
reflect this. What the step-by-step instructions should read is:
mkdir /usr/local/mailman
mkdir -p /usr/local/src/mailman
untar the downloaded tarball in the latter directory
cd /usr/local/src/mailman
run ./configure & make & make install in that directory.
This puts all the necessary files in /usr/local/mailman.
Final question on installation: can I now delete /usr/local/src/?
Thanks,
Rich
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