[Mailman-Developers] Problems with "make install"

[Magnus Solvang]

I'm trying to setup Mailman on a Linux machine, and have installed
Python 1.6.1 for this purpose. In other words, I'm new to both.
Anyway, "configure" (and "make") looks good, but "make install"
fails.

Can anybody guide me through this problem? I have searched for clues
via google.com, but have not come up with anything similar (at least
not in this part of the process).
I guess this is a problem with my Python-installation, but I would
appreciate any hints on how to fix this.

- M


mailman-2.0.1]$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python1.6
mailman-2.0.1]$ ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python1.6 \
--with-mail-uid=mailman --with-cgi-uid=nobody \
--with-python=/usr/local/bin/python1.6
[...]

mailman-2.0.1]# make install
[...]
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 (innermost last):
  File "bin/update", line 25, in ?
    import os
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/os.py", line 38, in ?
    import posixpath
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/posixpath.py", line 319
    _varprog = re.compile(r'\$(\w+|\{[^}]*\})')
                                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax