[Mailman-Users] Make Install error?

[Richard Barrett]

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:29  pm, Peters, Michael D. wrote:

> I am building Mailman 2.1.3 on Solaris 9 using gcc. The configuration 
> goes
> just fine using: ./configure --with-mail-gid=qmail
>
> During the "make install" I get the following:
>
> Compiling /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bin/update", line 47, in ?
>     from Mailman import Utils
>   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 35, in ?
>     import cgi
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/cgi.py", line 39, in ?
>     import urllib
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib.py", line 26, in ?
>     import socket
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ?
>     from _socket import *
> ImportError: No module named _socket
> make: *** [update] Error 1
>
> I assume this is not good. Can anyone shed some light on this and how 
> to fix
> it?
>

There have been a nuumber of previous posts about this. Check the 
archives, for instance:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg18979.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg14773.html

> Best regards,
>
> Michael D. Peters
>
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Richard Barrett                               http://www.openinfo.co.uk