[Mailman-Users] Mailman installation on Solaris 10 crashes

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:25 AM, vancleef at lostwells.net wrote:

> crashing on install of the Japanese and Korean Codecs.  I swapped some
> offlist E-mails with Barry Sapiro and told him that I would

I'm almost afraid to ask who "Barry Sapiro" is.  Is that some kind of  
mashup of me and Mark?  :)

> WHOOPS!  What is with the very clear "/opt/sfw/lib/python2.3" when I
> just installed 2.5 and put it in /usr/local/bin?

I would additionally make sure /usr/local/bin is first on your $PATH.

> An additional (and very well-known) Solaris "gotcha" is the error line
>
> /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
>
> Evidently, the Solaris Python looks for a "cc" in the path.
> /usr/ucb/cc is simply a stub that most Solaris sysadmins rename or
> move after installation.  The Sun Studio 11 native compiler is
> probably compatible with it, but there is still the objection to
> using an older Python.

It's actually probably the Makefile that's finding /usr/ucb/cc.   
Pretty well-known failure mode on Solaris.  Make sure a usable C  
compiler (either named gcc or cc <wink>) is first on your $PATH.

- -Barry

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