Changeset d73cf0a for BOOK/final-system/common/perl.xml

Timestamp:

Sep 13, 2006, 2:25:02 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>

Branches:

clfs-1.2, clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

056acae

Parents:

210c906

Message:

Change the text in the top of the perl instructions so that you only set the hostname and bring the loopback device up if you've followed the boot method.
Only show those notes on the first perl build - No need to set the hostname to clfs twice on multilib builds.

File:

• BOOK/final-system/common/perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/final-system/common/perl.xml

@@ -33 +33 @@
     -e "s@static_target='static'@static_target='static_pic'@g" Makefile.SH</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para os="a00">Before starting to configure, create a basic
+    <note os="a00">
+      <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
+      loopback device as well as set a hostname for some of the tests:</para>
+
+      <screen><userinput>ip link set lo up
+hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
+
+    <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, 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 os="a01"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost clfs" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para os="a02">We also have to enable the loopback interface, this
-    will prevent some perl networking testsuite failures:</para>
-
-<screen os="a03"><userinput>ip link set lo up</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para os="a04">We also have to set the hostname for some of the
-    test:</para>
-
-<screen os="a05"><userinput>hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
+<screen os="a02"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
 
     <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can