[Mailman-Developers] MM2.1 CVS: broken configure script
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:29:00 -0400
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