[Mailman-Users] make install fails on Linux Sparc64

[Brett Mueller]

Hi,

I've successfully installed and run Mailman from several different Linux
machines, but I've run into a new snag that *may* be an architecture-specific
problem.  The configure script runs through just fine, and the "make install"
command goes for awhile before it terminates with "OverflowError: math range
error".  The kernel is 2.4.5, and the machine is an UltraSPARC.  Is this
problem related to an arithmetic call that is handled differently in sparc64
versus i386?  If so, is there some tweaking that I can do to overcome this?  If
not, is it perhaps a problem with my Python installation?

For what it's worth, Python = 2.0, gcc = egcs-2.91.66.  Distribution is
Slackware 7.2...  The last lines from "make install" are at the end of this
message.

Any help much appreciated,

Brett

...
Listing /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/StringIO.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/__init__.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/cgi.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/rfc822.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/smtplib.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/tempfile.py ...
Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/update", line 31, in ?
    from Mailman import Utils
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in ?
    import random
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/random.py", line 84, in ?
    NV_MAGICCONST = 4*exp(-0.5)/sqrt(2.0)
OverflowError: math range error