Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM2.1 CVS: broken configure script

A while ago Matthias Klose doko@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:

MK> mailman checks for the installation directories during
MK> configury. IMO this wrongly assumes, that

|  - the build machine is the target machine
|  - the directories already exist during configuration
|  - you don't use a temporary installation directory

MK> 2.1b2 works ok. Found this while making experimental Debian
MK> packages.

I'm adding a configure switch --with(out)-permcheck. By default, the permissions on the --prefix directory are checked, unless you add --without-permicheck, then that check is skipped.

Hope that solves the problem. -Barry