buildmailman fails under natty
Bug #697441 reported by
Curtis Hovey
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
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Bug Description
make build (after hacking Makefile python=python2.6) fails under natty.
***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /home/curtis/
Could not configure Mailman:
checking for --with-python... /home/curtis/
checking Python interpreter... /home/curtis/
checking Python version... 2.6.6
checking Python's email package... ok
checking that Python has a working distutils... make: *** [compile] Error 1
python-setuptools 0.6.14-5ubuntu1 has python2.6 files
tags: | added: mailing-lists |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | nobody → William Grant (wgrant) |
milestone: | none → 11.02 |
Changed in launchpad: | |
milestone: | 11.02 → none |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | William Grant (wgrant) → nobody |
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I can hack mailman's own ./configure to force its build python 2.7 and all is well. Hacks are not needed to Lp's own Makefile. I think this implies that the natty package is bad.