Move creation of /etc/hosts in Perl, to remove another ICA difference.

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Ken Moffat 2006-01-07 23:09:01 +00:00
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@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
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<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.
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@ -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)" &gt; /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)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
<para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
<screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>

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@ -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>