This patch is to address a proposal by Waldemar in this thread:
http://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/pipermail/devel/2016-June/001006.html
tst-ethers-line and tst-ethers require /etc/ethers to exist,
otherwise user should create it manually.
Add this info to warning message.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <[email protected]>
---
 test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c | 5 +++--
 test/inet/tst-ethers.c      | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c b/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
index 19cf2fb..182faf0 100644
--- a/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
+++ b/test/inet/tst-ethers-line.c
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 #define ETHER_LINE_LEN 256
 
 /* This test requires /etc/ethers to exist
- * and to have nonzero length
+ * and to have nonzero length. You should create it manually,
+ * if it doesn't exist.
  */
 
 int main(void)
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ int main(void)
        struct stat statb;
 
        if ((fd = open(ETHER_FILE_NAME, O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
-               perror ("Cannot open file");
+               perror ("Cannot open file /etc/ethers");
                exit(1);
        }
 
diff --git a/test/inet/tst-ethers.c b/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
index 6b6e10c..f12813a 100644
--- a/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
+++ b/test/inet/tst-ethers.c
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 /* This test requires /etc/ethers to exist
  * and to have host "teeth". For example:
  * 00:11:22:33:44:55 teeth
+ * You should create /etc/ethers file with
+ * host "teeth" manually, if it doesn't exist.
  */
 
 int main(void)
@@ -15,8 +17,10 @@ int main(void)
        int i;
        int res = ether_hostton("teeth", &addr);
 
-       if (res)
+       if (res) {
+               printf("Either /etc/ethers is missing or it has incorrect 
contents\n");
                return 1;
+       }
 
        for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
                printf("%02x", addr.ether_addr_octet[i]);
-- 
2.5.5

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