[Mailman-Users] Problem installing on Solaris 8

[Young, Darren]

> I'm trying to install Mailman 2.1.6 on a Solaris 8 machine.  
> There seems to be a rather strange error and I'm not sure if 
> it's a misconfiguration of my machine or a problem with Mailman.
> 
> I had no problem with 'configure' or with 'make'.  I *did* 
> use gcc -- there is a "cc" binary on the system, but the Sun 
> compiler is *not* present, and this was no problem during the 
> compile phase.
> 
> However, when I got to 'make install' it seems there is a 
> problem.  The install process seems to want to call "cc", 
> even though it was not specified or used in either 
> 'configure' or 'make'.
> 
> Here is the error I get:
> 
> 8<---start------------------------------------------------------
>     (cd ./$p ; umask 02 ; PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib
> /opt/csw/bin/python setup.py --quiet install --install-lib 
> /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib  --install-purelib 
> /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib  --install-data 
> /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib); \ done
> /opt/csw/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: UserWarning: 'licence'
> distribution option is deprecated; use 'license'
>   warnings.warn(msg)
> /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
> error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-packages'
> Current working directory /export/home/users/steve/mailman-2.1.6/misc
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall'
> 8<----stop-----------------------------------------------
> 
> The error message from "cc" is the message that you get 
> because the Sun compiler is not installed.  But why is it 
> being called?  I've tried taking /usr/ucb out of the path so 
> that there is no "cc" binary available, but then I get the 
> error that there is no "cc".
> 
> OK, here's a workaround, but it's ugly.  I put a symlink 
> pointing cc to gcc and then made sure /usr/ucb was not in the 
> path.  I got some warnings:
> 
> cc1: warning: "-Wno-deprecated" is valid for C++ but not C/ObjC
> 
> but the install finished.  It really sounds like there is 
> something in the Mailman install procedure that has "cc" hard coded.
> 

Try export CC='gcc' or CC='/path/to/gcc' then clean and re-run configure

Or clean and run configure CC='/path/to/gcc'

Or even both.

Watch out for ar as well, I've had that do the same thing on Solaris 8. 

I usually add CC='/opt/sfw/bin/gcc' and AR='/opt/sfw/bin/gcc' to all my
configure's and make's