[Mailman-Developers] MM2.1 CVS: broken configure script

[Barry A. Warsaw]

A while ago Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

    MK> mailman checks for the installation directories during
    MK> configury. IMO this wrongly assumes, that

    |  - the build machine is the target machine
    |  - the directories already exist during configuration
    |  - you don't use a temporary installation directory

    MK> 2.1b2 works ok. Found this while making experimental Debian
    MK> packages.

I'm adding a configure switch --with(out)-permcheck.  By default, the
permissions on the --prefix directory are checked, unless you add
--without-permicheck, then that check is skipped.

Hope that solves the problem.
-Barry