On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Janet Heath > <janetcatherine.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> checking for --with-python... no >> checking for python... /usr/bin/python >> checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python >> checking Python version... 2.7.1 >> checking Python's email package... ok >> checking Japanese codecs... ok >> checking Korean codecs... ok >> checking that Python has a working distutils... configure: error: >> >> ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python >> ***** If you installed Python from RPM (or other package manager) >> ***** be sure to install the -devel package, or install Python >> ***** from source. See sec. 15.1 of the Installation Manual for >> ***** details >> >> When I try to check the configuration ./configure for Mailman, I get >> the above messages. > > What *nix flavor or Linux distro are you running? > > Cheers, > Chris
Based on the previous post (./configure), I would assume OS X Lion. I would also assume she gave up on compiling 2.7.3 herself because it's only finding the system Python. Janet, did you install the binary from http://www.python.org? If so, look up the --with-python argument it's checking for (./configure --help) and set the Python location accordingly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list