[Mailman-Users] Solaris install problem

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "derf" ==   <derf at sonic.net> writes:

    derf> I'm trying to install Mailman under Solaris 8 with the
    derf> 8_recommended patches installed.  I've downloaded, compiled,
    derf> and installed Python 2.2.1.  While attempting to configure
    derf> Mailman 2.0.13, it gives the following error no matter what
    derf> I do:

This looks like a Python problem.  Can you start up Python 2.2.1 and
try the following:

% python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, May 31 2002, 18:34:35) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pwd
>>> pwd.__file__
'/usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/pwd.so'
>>> pwd.getpwnam('root')
('root', 'x', 0, 0, 'root', '/root', '/bin/bash')

If you get an import error on pwd, then something's wacky about your
Python build.  Note that I just tried a from-source build of Python
2.2.1 on the SF compile farm's Solaris 8 box and it worked okay for me
(although there were more than a few test failures, the pwd module
wasn't one of them).

If you /don't/ get an import error, then something else is going on,
but I'll need your help to dig in further since I don't have a Solaris
machine handy any more.

-Barry