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| author | Ken Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-07 23:09:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Ken Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-01-07 23:09:01 +0000 |
| commit | f76cde828d0fdc3eeca158debedda78f4075882d (patch) | |
| tree | 9c20a6e463f9c09d8d4229bbf597a33218a9b9ba | |
| parent | 9a404f49c5596e2473f5e0f6e8e78658a09decbe (diff) | |
Move creation of /etc/hosts in Perl, to remove another ICA difference.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7258 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/perl.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter07/hosts.xml | 2 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 04c556ca5..2bb969340 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para> </itemizedlist> </listitem> +<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to +always create an /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in +the 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for +explaining this.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP. </para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml index 6d1ea285a..5bbd8ff88 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl.xml @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Perl</title> +<para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be +referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by +the testsuite if you run that.</para> + +<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen> + <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable, @@ -50,12 +56,6 @@ prepare Perl for compilation with:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>To run the test suite, first create a basic -<filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which is needed by a couple of the tests to -resolve the network name localhost:</para> - -<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen> - <para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para> <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen> diff --git a/chapter07/hosts.xml b/chapter07/hosts.xml index 6e6549913..8680d011e 100644 --- a/chapter07/hosts.xml +++ b/chapter07/hosts.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <sect1 id="ch-scripts-hosts"> <?dbhtml filename="hosts.html"?> - <title>Creating the /etc/hosts File</title> + <title>Customizing the /etc/hosts File</title> <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts"> <primary sortas="e-/etc/hosts">/etc/hosts</primary> |