Python port problems

[Joe Auty]

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I sent on this problem to the Mailman list and got the following  
response.... is this useful?



> Joe Auty wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Joe Auty wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try to startup the Mailport FreeBSD port via its rc  
>>>> script, I
>>>> get the following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ... snipped all sorts of stuff ....
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>>>>   File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 76, in ?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> First it seems some configuration step may have been missed.  
>>> <prefix>
>>> should have been replaced with a path - probably /usr/local/ 
>>> mailman/.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> How do I correct this?
>>
>
>
> I have no idea. What I said in my first response still applies.
>
>
>
>>>> This same port works on another FreeBSD machine of mine. I've posed
>>>> this question to the FreeBSD Questions list, but I seem to have
>>>> baffled some, which is why I thought I would post this question  
>>>> here.
>>>> I hope this appropriate to post here.
>>>>
>
>
> You might compare the 'rc' file on this machine to the one on the
> working machine. That might provide a clue.
>
>
> This is the paragraph I was referring to above by "what I said ..."
>
>
>
>>> We probably can't be much help either. The output you posted seems
>>> 'interleaved' and is not too intelligible without knowing what is
>>> being run. In general, we are not able to help much with 3rd party
>>> packages when the problem is with the package rather than the
>>> underlying Mailman.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Just in case you'd like to take a stab at this, I'm enclosing the
>> full error message. I'd *really* appreciate your help if you are able
>> to help me, since I'd really like to get Mailman running again on
>> this computer somehow, and have reached the end of my rope...
>>
>
>
> The full output really isn't any more help than the excerpt, since we
> still have no idea what's in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh that's
> producing all these errors. This script is part of your FreeBSD port.
> It's not in our distribution. Also, we have no idea in what ways files
> we do know about have been changed in your package.
>
> One wild guess - look at bin/paths.py. It should contain real paths as
> definitions for 'prefix' and 'exec_prefix'. If it's wrong, then so
> probably are cron/paths.py and scripts/paths.py (and who knows what
> else).
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>




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Joe Auty
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http://www.netmusician.org
joe at netmusician.org


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