On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
Or actually, the Perl documentation[1] says it's part of the system that
allows programs to find out how Perl was configured. The command in the
string is supposed to "produce the text of the /etc/hosts file", but I'm
not sure what purpose that would necessarily serve. Hmm...
Regardless, it is a difference, that (IMO at least) should be fixed.
The perl installation instructions already have the user create a hosts
file before running the perl tests. Maybe it would be a good idea to
create it earlier (before ./configure.gnu), then overwrite it when the
user sets up networking later (section 7.11). Or remove it after
installing Perl.
[1] http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/Config.html#item_hostcat
/me raises his hat to Bryan, to salute him for reading the Perl
documentation.
Perhaps we shold move the creation of /etc/hosts to before we configure
perl, AND change the title of '7.11 Creating the /etc/hosts File' to
'7.11 The /etc/hosts File' ?
Ken
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