[Mailman-Users] Configure options not known

[Matt Morgan]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/09/2016 02:27 PM, Matt Morgan wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks. --prefix is the standard, but there's nothing in /var apart from
>> > mailman's crontab. What's an example of a file that I could 'locate' to
>> > figure out what mailman is using instead of /var? Or is there another
>> > way to determine what it is?
>>
>>
>> Where are the archives/, data/, lists/, locks/, logs/, qfiles/ and
>> spam/ directories. If they are in the same directory as the bin/, cron/,
>> icons/, mail/,  Mailman/,  messages/, pythonlib/, scripts/ and tests/
>> directories, then you don't need --with-var-prefix at all because it is
>> the same as $prefix. If different, then the containing directory is what
>> you need for --with-var-prefix.
>>
>> If the bin/, cron/, icons/, mail/,  Mailman/,  messages/, pythonlib/,
>> scripts/ and tests/ directories are all in /usr/local/mailman, you don't
>> need --prefix because that's the default.
>>
>> Finally, if the cgi-bin/ directory is in $prefix, you don't need
>> --exec-prefix. Otherwise, --exec-prefix is the path that contains the
>> cgi-bin/ directory.
>
>
> (snipping a lot of that)
>
> configure and make install seemed to work. I got a CGI error and corrected
> it, just like you said would happen.
>
> Unfortunately, local delivery is failing for all (as far as I can tell)
> list addresses. What have I done? Any advice welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>

Looks like I need --with-mail-gid=mail. Working on that now.