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Re: bug in hostname
From: |
Martin MOKREJŠ |
Subject: |
Re: bug in hostname |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:48:25 +0100 (CET) |
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > Personally, if configure in coreutils would include a code to
> > disable hostname based on certain criteria, I would be happy
> > with that too.
> >
> > That is ugly, and it is impossible to figure out what this
> > criteria is.
>
> There is precedent for a ./configure option like
> --disable-hostname; I think that's the sort of thing Martin was
> talking about.
Yes, that what I've meant. Maybe the required logic wouldn't be nice, but
say: by default don't build hostname on Solaris, Irix, where else too?
With a note in INSTALL and "configure --help" it would be perfectly fine.
> I understood it as having configure do some magic and see what the
> user wanted, if what you say is what Martin ment, then I see no
> problem with that.
>
> But the best proposal I've heard so far is to merge the version
> from gettext into coreutils. That version supports all the options
> people have asked for, and its copyright is already assigned to the
> FSF.
>
So how about the above? I'm also for this solution. ;)
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- Re: bug in hostname, Martin MOKREJŠ, 2004/01/10
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2004/01/10
- Re: bug in hostname, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/01/10
- Re: bug in hostname, Martin MOKREJŠ, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Paul Jarc, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/01/22
- Re: bug in hostname,
Martin MOKREJŠ <=
- Re: bug in hostname, Paul Jarc, 2004/01/29
- Re: bug in hostname, Bruno Haible, 2004/01/18
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2004/01/17
- Re: bug in hostname, Bruno Haible, 2004/01/18
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Bruno Haible, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2004/01/21
- Re: bug in hostname, Bob Proulx, 2004/01/23
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2004/01/23
- Re: bug in hostname, Bruno Haible, 2004/01/23