[fetchmail]Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Re: Tried to install 6.2.9-rc8 --with-ssl

[Matthias Andree]

Sunil Shetye <shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com> writes:

> Quoting from Sunil Shetye's mail on Sat, Nov 12, 2005:
>> Quoting from Peter Church's mail on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:42:05PM -0000:
>> >   Like the title says :( I have tried to install this version and come up  
>> > with the following
>> > error. I had a previous version installed however I deleted the old  
>> > binaries before I started...
>> > 
>> > bash-3.00# make install
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> > test -z "" || /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs ""
>> >  ./install-sh -c -m 644 'fetchmailconf.py' '/fetchmailconf.py'
>> 
>> It is installing fetchmailconf.py on the root directory! This means
>> that pythondir and/or pyexecdir are not set correctly.
>> 
>> > ./py-compile: Missing argument to --basedir.
>> > *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Could you run these commands and tell the output?
>
> If python is missing, "make install" gives the above errors. It seems
> that the configure script accepts a missing python, but the Makefile
> generated by configure cannot cope with a missing python.

*blush* OK, let's work around automake then.

> This patch now avoids installing fetchmailconf* if python is missing.

Thank you.

> To check the patch, python needs to be removed from the system first
> as there is no configure option to disable checking the location of
> python.

No need to mess with the installation - you can just run this:
./configure PYTHON=: [other options here]

-- 
Matthias Andree