Re: What's wrong with this system's configuration?

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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:37 +0200, Nick *** wrote:
> Seems like the admin is not going to help me.
> Anyway, I compiled perl 5.8.6 on two other platforms in the testdrive
> program and when I try to compile mp2 I get the same error (on these
> two platforms I didn't get the error with the native perl
> distribution.) I don't know if this is a problem with perl or the
> platforms' configurations.

It is a problem with the hostname on your systems.  I'm not sure you'll
even be able to start a web server without fixing it.

>  Is this check vital for mod_perl to operate?

I believe it is trying to generate a config to use for the test script.
You might be able to skip it by hacking up Makefile.PL, but it's really
not worth the trouble.  Your machines are configured to answer the
question "what is the hostname for 127.0.0.1?" with a hostname that
doesn't resolve to anything.  You need to fix that, either by making it
give a hostname that works or by making the hostname it does give work.

- Perrin