[Mailman-Users] For the Record: How to install Mailman on OS X Server...

[Tom Moore]

My new hero, Ken Case of OmniGroup, was kind enough to pass along 
these instructions on how to get Mailman to install on OS X Server:

At 5:19 PM -0700 7/5/00, Ken Case wrote:
>The default C preprocessor shipped by Apple has some bugs which 
>don't exist in the traditional C preprocessor:  to work around this, 
>add "-traditional-cpp" to your C compiler flags.  (For some reason, 
>configure knows to include "-traditional-cpp" in "CPP" but doesn't 
>automatically include it in "OPT".)
>
>I did this after the fact by editing config.status and changing the 
>"OPT" setting from "-g -O2" to "-traditional-cpp -g -O2", then 
>running "./config.status" to rebuild the makefiles using my new 
>settings.  I suspect you could also do it by passing 
>"OPT='-traditional-cpp -g -O2'" on the command line when you run
>./configure.

I did this and got the program to install all the way. I haven't gone 
any further, and I'll undoubtedly hit other snags, but this piece of 
advice seems to have done the trick for the installation. Thanks, Ken!

Tom Moore
Landslide Design


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Tom Moore
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