[Koha-devel] koha-3.00.00 make fails

[Jesse Weaver]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have downloaded http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
> and began installing it on Debian/etch (in a Linux vserver environment).
>
>
> 0. FINE: cd koha-3.00.00
>
> 1. FINE: perl Makefile.PL
>
> 2. FAIL: make
>
>      :   :    :
>    Manifying blib/man3/C4::UploadedFile.3pm
>    Manifying blib/man3/C4::BackgroundJob.3pm
>    Manifying blib/man3/opac::opac-dictionary.3pm
>    Manifying blib/man3/serials::member-search.3pm
>    /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" fix-perl-path.PL blib
>    /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" rewrite-config.PL
> blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml
>    Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 0, should be 4 at
> rewrite-config.PL line 67.
>    make: *** [blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml] Error 255
>
>
> Any ideas what went wrong and how to fix?
>
> Aside: there were a couple of other problems with this "out of the box"
> debian based install of Koha 3.0 which had to be fixed along the way, e.g.
> seven missing perl modules and libgd not found.
>
> I'll report on the entire process from unpacking to a running Koha/3.00.00
> once I get to the end.
>
> cheers
> rickw
> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
>

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";'
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