[Mailman-Users] Error an configuring Mailman

Dan Mick dan.mick at west.sun.com
Sun Feb 18 01:47:55 CET 2001


Run configure in a directory you have permissions to write in.
That's what all those "permission denied" messages mean.


bal ram wrote:
> 
> while using ./configure command in user login it shows
> error
> ./configure: ./config.log: Permission denied
> ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor
> ./configure: confdefs.h: Permission denied
> creating cache ./config.cache
> ./configure: ./config.cache: Permission denied
> checking for --with-python... ./configure: 5: Bad file
> descriptor
> no
> checking for python... ./configure: 5: Bad file
> descriptor
> /usr/bin/python
> checking Python interpreter... ./configure: 5: Bad
> file descriptor
> /usr/bin/python
> checking Python version... ./configure: 5: Bad file
> descriptor
> ./configure: conftest.py: Permission denied
> /usr/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py'
> cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory
> configure: error:
> 
> ***** /usr/bin/python is too old (or broken)
> ***** Python 1.5.2 or newer is required
> 
> I need help on this
> 
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