[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 2.1b2 and qmail

[Ellen Spertus]

At 08:19 PM 6/20/2002 -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote:
 > The problem was that mail/mailman never got created from 
mailman-2.1b2/src/mail-wrapper.c, which I'll now try to understand.

The problem was that /usr/local/src/mailman-2.1b2/src/Makefile was placing 
the mailman executable (created from mail-wrapper.c) into 
/usr/local/bin/mail/ instead of into /usr/local/mailman/mail/.  The 
relevant lines from the Makefile are:

prefix=   	/usr/local/mailman
exec_prefix=	/usr/local/bin
MAIL_PROGS= mailman
MAILDIR=	$(exec_prefix)/mail
	for f in $(MAIL_PROGS); \
	do \
	    $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$f $(MAILDIR); \
	    chmod g+s $(MAILDIR)/$$f; \
	done

Because I did not set exec_prefix in configure, it defaulted to 
/usr/local/bin.  I'll need someone wiser than me to tell me whether this 
was a bug or a feature and how to permanently fix the problem.  (For now, 
I'll just copy the file from the directory in which it is placed to the 
directory in which it was sought.)

Soliloquizing,
Ellen