Jesse Weaver wrote:
It sounds like there might be problems with DNS (/etc/hosts not having your hostname); could you report on the result of this command?
$ perl -e 'use Sys::Hostname; use Socket; print hostname() . "\n"; print gethostbyname(hostname()) ? "dns good\n" : "dns bad\n";'
Thanks so much, Jesse. Yup, I did not have an entry for the local guest host in this virtual machine partition (vserver). Now "make" completes without error. And "make test" runs through to completion sans error. I am now proceeding to "make install". cheers rickw -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor The manual said Windows XP/SP2 or better so I installed Linux.