Bugs item #427421, was opened at 2001-05-25 17:04 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=427421&group_id=103

Category: configuring/installing Group: 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: Works For Me

Priority: 1 Submitted By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Assigned to: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Summary: Configure script problem on Mac OS X.

Initial Comment: I can't run configure on Mac OS X 10.0.3 (Darwin 1.3.3).

When I run it as root I get :

checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... mailman checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py [1152] /usr/local/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py' cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory

configure: error: ***** No "mailman" user found! ***** Your system must have a "mailman" user defined ***** (usually in your /etc/passwd file). Please see the INSTALL ***** file for details.

And when I run it as a normal user ::

checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... sh: setgroups: Operation not permitted thomas checking for thomas UID... 501 checking for --with-groupname... mailman

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2002-04-29 03:43

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Yep, with mailman 2.0.10 / Mac OS X 10.1.4 I've still this error when configuring as normal user :

checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... sh: setgroups: Operation not permitted

I've to chown and su mailman the sources dir to make it work.

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-04-28 17:50

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There hasn't been any new information on this bug in a long time. Is this a problem?

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2001-06-04 18:59

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The original problem (configure on mac OS X) isn't fixed. The configure script only works if you su mailman and chown mailman the sources dir before doing configure. There is still an odd bug with conftest.py if you su root before configuring ...

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2001-06-04 14:36

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I suspect you might not be running qrunner properly from cron. Please read the README files about how to set this up. In any event, I'm closing this bug report, since the original problem (configure on MacOSX) seems to be solved.

If you think you have another bug related to sending mail, please submit a new bug report.

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2001-05-30 07:57

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[thomac:~] thomas% cat > conftest.py print "hello world" [thomac:~] thomas% python conftest.py hello world

this works ...

OK, I've checked out the stable version ... make works perfectly, but I don't get the welcome mail when I create a new test list. i'm using Postfix as MTA and my aliases are correctly setup.

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-05-30 06:58

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Oops, again. I should have been more explicit in checking out the CVS tree: if you want a stable Mailman, you should check out Mailman using

cvs -d <CVSROOT> co -rRelease_2_0_1-branch mailman

(after moving the old 'mailman' directory asside.) The head of the CVS tree is for Mailman 2.1, and is probably best described as "pleasantly unstable", not quite unlike Barry's poems :) The 2.0.1 release branch is currently 2.0.5 plus a few bugfixes, including the PREFIX one.

I'm still stumped about the conftest.py failure, though. Can you create a file 'conftest.py' with a few lines of Python code ("print 'hello world'" will do) and try to execute it using "/usr/local/bin/python conftest.py" ? I wonder if it might be a problem with your python, in that it doesn't understand current working directories and such. (In fact.... Wasn't there a thread on python-dev not so long ago about how MacOS didn't have the concept of a current working directory ? :)

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2001-05-29 14:40

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Maybe you have an old version of mimelib? In version 0.3 the ReprMixin class was renamed to StringableMixin.

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2001-05-29 14:34

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hMmm ... i've tried with cvs. I installed mimelib and now, the compilation of common.c runs properly, but now I get the error :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 46, in ? from Mailman import MailList File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 42, in ? from Mailman.ListAdmin import ListAdmin File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 33, in ? from Mailman import Message File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 26, in ? from mimelib.StringableMixin import StringableMixin ImportError: No module named StringableMixin

And there's still the configure problem.

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-05-29 14:12

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D'oh! I just realized what the difference is... I'm using the current CVS tree, in which I fixed at least the PREFIX bug. I'm guessing you aren't. Can you try the CVS tree ? If you don't have access to cvs on your darwin box, let me know and I'll mail you a .tgz of a current snapshot.

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2001-05-29 12:37

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make -v GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for powerpc-apple-darwin1.0 Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

cc -v Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-926, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

and for the configure problem : i'm able to sudo ... and even as root, the install fails.

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-05-29 12:28

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One thing that might matter is that I had root-privs, meaning that I was allowed to do sudo. Other than that, I do the exact same thing as you, and it really works fine.

The other problem is even stranger! The 'cc' line you quote has the -DPREFIX= line, which defines 'PREFIX', but then cc complains that it isn't defined ?? What version of cc and make are you using ? it worked fine with:

[localhost:~/mailman-2.0] thomas% cc -v Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-926, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

[localhost:~/mailman-2.0] thomas% make -v GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for powerpc-apple-darwin1.0

if your make doesn't report the version on -v, you're using BSD make (aka 'bsdmake' on darwin.) Try running 'gnumake' -- it wouldn't be the first weirdness being solved by using gmake instead of bsdmake :)

Comment By: Deniau Thomas (thdeniau) Date: 2001-05-29 12:19

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HFS+ filesystem, too. I've the problem on a fresh download : the file conftest.py doesn't exist. Even I if chmod -R 777 the mailman folder, this doesn't work. The only way to configure properly is to chown the repertory to mailman and to run the configure as mailman, or to chown -R 777 continuously while configure runs. Very very odd. Maybe because HFS+ is case-insensitive ... And, even if I run configure as mailman, make install fails : cc -c -I. -DPREFIX="\/usr/local/mailman\" -DPYTHON="\/usr/local/bin/python\" -DHELPFUL -g -O2 -g -O2 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_SETREGID=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DGETGROUPS_T=gid_t -DHAVE_VSNPRINTF=1
./common.c ./common.c:26: PREFIX' undeclared here (not in a function) ./common.c:26: scripts' undeclared here (not in a function) ./common.c:26: parse error before `;' make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-05-29 12:02

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It works fine on my colleague's darwin 1.3.3, on a HFS+ filesystem. I suspect that you have a 'conftest.py' leftover from a previous run, and with odd permissions. Try deleting it, and see if that helps. You do need to make a 'mailman' user and group, though, just like the README says. I didn't want to totally screw my colleague's machine (he sits within striking distance of me) so I didn't actually install, but configure and make both went fine.

(Contrary to compiling Python... Cost me a good two hours to compile python on the box :)

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-05-29 09:30

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Going to check on this on my colleague's MacOS X box.

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