[Mailman-Users] Mailman port

[Mark Sapiro]

Peter Clark wrote:
>
>I tried to install the mailman port (FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64) this 
>morning and it bombs out during the install phase:
>
><snip>
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/TopicMgr.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/UserDesc.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Version.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/__init__.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ...
>Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
>*** Signal 11
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman/work/mailman-2.1.12.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/mail/mailman.
>
></snip>
>
>the only corresponding thing I see in the logs is:
>Apr 22 11:18:51 greed kernel: pid 38872 (python2.6), uid 0: exited on 
>signal 11 (core dumped)
>
>
>Any thoughts on what to look at to correct this?


This is a FreeBSD packaging question, not a Mailman question. Signal 11
usually is a segmentation fault. Python shouldn't be seg faulting when
trying to compile anything. I would guess it is a problem with the
Python installation somehow or some kind of packaging incompatibility.

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