[Mailman-Users] Problems while Installing Mailman 2.1.2

[Richard Barrett]

At 09:21 13/06/2003, Rupak Mohan wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>       I am trying to install Mailman 2.1.2 on Redhat linux 7.2,
>so as per the installation requirements i have installed Python 2.2.3,
>and by default there is Perl 5.0.2 already installed .
>
>   while i was able to successfully install Python 2.2.3 , i got the below 
> problem while installing Mailman
>
>      my installation folder is /var/mailman.
>
>   the system was able to run the configuration file,but when i tried to 
> run "make install"..
>
>it says that
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Creating architecture independant directories..
>make[1]:Entering Directory '/var/mailman/bin'
>
>    blah...blah...blah..
>do \
>
>   usr/bin/install -c -m 755 ..build/bin/$f /var/mailman/bin \
>done
>make[1]:Leaving Directory '/var/mailman/bin'
>make[1]:Entering Directory '/var/mailman/cron'
>for f in crontab.in; \
>do \
>    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /var/mailman/cron;\
>done
>  /usr/bin/install; 'crontab.in' and 'var/mailman/cron/crontab.in' are the 
> same file
>make[1]"***[install] Error;
>make[1]:Leaving Directory '/var/mailman/cron'
>make[1]:Entering Directory '/var/mailman/misc'

This looks as though you are trying to install Mailman into its own build 
directory.

Typically, you would unzip and extract the Mailman source into a directory, 
say /home/mailman, so that the build directory would then be, say, 
/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.2. From that build directory you would 
./configure and make install into /var/mailman.

>
>
>blah...blah..blah
>
>and
>-------------------.
>--------------------
>/usr/bin/install \: '/Autoresponder.py' and 
>'/var/mailman/Mailman/Autoresponder.py' are the same file
>
>/usr/bin/install \: '/Bouncer.py' and '/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py' 
>are the same file
>
>/usr/bin/install \: '/Defaults.py' and '/var/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py' 
>are the same file
>
>/usr/bin/install \: '/Deliver.py' and '/var/mailman/Mailman/Deliver.py' 
>are the same file
>
>---------------
>--------------
>
>
>make[1]:***[install] Error;
>make[1]:Leaving Directory '/var/mailman/Mailman'
>make[1]:Entering Directory '/var/mailman/scripts'
>
>
>---------------------
>-------------------
>
>make :[do-install] Error 2
>--------------------------------------------------
>and stops here
>
>it almost says repeats the above line 'are the same file' for all the 
>files listed ..
>
>Please tell me how to proceed further..I am desperate to install 
>Mailman..kindly give me some idea to proceed
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Thanx in advance
>
>Best Regards
>Rupak
>

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Richard Barrett                                      http://www.openinfo.co.uk