fetchmail can't find python?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

	On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:40:50 +0100
	Anton Shterenlikht articulated:

	> While rebuilding fetchmail again, I noticed this line
	> in configure logs:
	>=20
	> configure: WARNING: Disabling fetchmailconf: python 2.0 or greater
	> not found
	>=20
	> I've got python all right:
	>=20
	> # pkg info -xo python
	> python27-2.7.3_3: lang/python27
	> #=20
	>=20
	> So what does this mean?
	>=20
	> In case it matters, this is on=20
	>=20
	> # uname -a
	> FreeBSD mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD
	> 10.0-CURRENT #6 r237134: Mon Jun 18 09:02:17 BST 2012
	> root at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TZAV  ia64 #=20

	I had a similar problem with "ruby", obviously with another program
	recently. I simply did an R&R of the port and now everything works fine.
	I have found over the years that certain programs just seem to disappear
	for no apparent reason and usually at the most in-opportunistic times.

	By the way, does "which python" reveal anything?

What's R&R? rock-n-roll?..

Anyway:

# cat /usr/local/bin/fetchmailconf 
#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper for the real fetchmailconf.  Checks whether Python and Tkinter are
# installed, and runs the real fetchmailconf or alerts the user, as appropriate.
#
# $FreeBSD: head/mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmailconf 300896 2012-07-14 13:54:48Z beat $

LOCALBASE=/usr/local

if [ -x $LOCALBASE/bin/python ] ; then
        PYTHON_VERSION=python$(${LOCALBASE}/bin/python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]' 2>/dev/null)
        if [ -e ${LOCALBASE}/lib/${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/_tkinter.so ]; then
                exec ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/fetchmailconf.py "$@"
        fi
fi
cat <<EOF
The fetchmailconf program requires Python with Tkinter, which does
not appear to be installed on this system.  Python can be found in
the FreeBSD Ports Collection in lang/python, and Tkinter for Python
can be found in x11-toolkits/py-tkinter.
EOF
exit 1
# 

Now, I've got py27-tkinter-2.7.3_3 (x11-toolkits/py-tkinter),
but I guess the fetchmail configure script doesn't detect
this properly.

And anyway, since fetchmailconf is optional, I think
it makes perfect sense to make an option to install
fetchmailconf, which, if chosen, triggers a check
for x11-toolkits/py-tkinter.

I'm copying in the maintainer.