Re: [gentoo-dev] perl compile stuck on lib/io_sock (was: emerge aborting on linux-headers)

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:56:46AM -0400, Cliff Crawford wrote:
> > > !!! emerge aborting on
> > > /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-2.4.10-r1.ebuild .
> > > 
> > > Not sure where to go from here..what am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Our mistake.  I'm fixing this on CVS right now, and rsync will be updated
> > by the time you read this.
> 
> Thanks, that got me a little bit farther :)  Now I'm having trouble
> building the base system.  It gets stuck compiling perl (in the `make
> test' part, I think).  Here's the output I see:
> 
> ...
> lib/io_linenum.......ok
> lib/io_multihomed....ok
> lib/io_pipe..........ok
> lib/io_poll..........ok
> lib/io_sel...........ok
> lib/io_sock..........
> 
> The cursor is just sitting at the end of that last line, and it doesn't
> seem to be doing anything.  It never times out either.  I know my
> network connection is ok, because I was able to rsync before.
> Any ideas?  Or, is there some way I can tell emerge to skip the `make test'
> step for perl?

Try setting up the lo interface and making sure that "localhost" has an
entry in /etc/hosts.  That should solve it, I think.  Let me know if it
does (or doesn't) so I can update the install docs.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.