On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:22:42PM +0100, Magnus Solvang wrote:
I'm trying to setup Mailman on a Linux machine, and have installed Python 1.6.1 for this purpose. In other words, I'm new to both. Anyway, "configure" (and "make") looks good, but "make install" fails.
Why did you take 1.6.1, and not 2.0, btw ? 2.0 contains a lot of bugfixes to 1.6. I don't *know* that it fixes this problem, but it might :)
Can anybody guide me through this problem? I have searched for clues via google.com, but have not come up with anything similar (at least not in this part of the process). I guess this is a problem with my Python-installation, but I would appreciate any hints on how to fix this.
It looks like a problem with the python installation... What did you set PYTHONPATH to ? What version does 'python' report when you start it up ? It *looks* like you started a very old version of python (one that doesn't have raw string support) with a PYTHONPATH that points to the 1.6 library tree. Can you check that PYTHON is set to the right python binary in the Makefile ?
mailman-2.0.1]$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python1.6 mailman-2.0.1]$ ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python1.6
--with-mail-uid=mailman --with-cgi-uid=nobody
--with-python=/usr/local/bin/python1.6 [...]mailman-2.0.1]# make install [...] Listing /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib ... Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/update", line 25, in ? import os File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/os.py", line 38, in ? import posixpath File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/posixpath.py", line 319 _varprog = re.compile(r'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\})') ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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