[Mailman-Users] ./configure hangs on SuSE 7.1

[Dan Boger]

I'm trying to install mailman 2.0.8 on an alpha running SuSE 7.1.  while
running ./configure, the process hangs:

./configure --with-cgi-gid=nogroup
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for --with-python... no
checking for python... (cached) /usr/bin/python
checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python
checking Python version... 2.0
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for true... (cached) /bin/true
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether #! works in shell scripts... (cached) yes
checking for --with-var-prefix... no
checking for --with-username... mailman
checking for mailman UID... 522
checking for --with-groupname... mailman
checking for mailman GID... 112
checking permissions on /home/mailman... okay
checking for mail wrapper GID... (cached) 12
checking for CGI wrapper GID... 99
checking for CGI extensions... no

[hangs]

ctrl-c doesn't do anything, but ctrl-\ does... at which point configure
continues with:

./configure: line 1480: 16427 Quit                    $PYTHON
conftest.py
checking for default fully qualified host name... head: conftest.out: No
such file or directory

checking for default URL host component... tail: conftest.out: No such
file or directory

checking for strerror... (cached) yes
checking for setregid... (cached) yes
checking for syslog... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for syslog.h... (cached) yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking type of array argument to getgroups... (cached) gid_t
checking for vsnprintf... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating misc/paths.py
creating Mailman/Defaults.py
creating Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist
creating src/Makefile
creating misc/Makefile
creating bin/Makefile
creating Mailman/Makefile
creating Mailman/Cgi/Makefile
creating Mailman/Logging/Makefile
creating Mailman/Archiver/Makefile
creating Mailman/pythonlib/Makefile
creating Mailman/Handlers/Makefile
creating Mailman/Bouncers/Makefile
creating templates/Makefile
creating cron/Makefile
creating filters/Makefile
creating scripts/Makefile
creating cron/crontab.in
creating Makefile


what's broken here?  python installed is :


> python -v
# /usr/lib/python2.0/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.0/site.py
import site # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.0/site.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.0/os.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.0/os.py
import os # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.0/os.pyc
import posix # builtin
# /usr/lib/python2.0/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.0/posixpath.py
import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.0/posixpath.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.0/stat.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.0/stat.py
import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.0/stat.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.0/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.0/UserDict.py
import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.0/UserDict.pyc
Python 2.0 (#1, Apr 24 2001, 15:07:32)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (SuSE Linux 7.1/Alpha)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import readline # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload/readline.so
>>>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  And let me know if there's any
other information I could supply.

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Boger
dan at peeron.com