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

[Aron Griffis]

Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Sun Oct 07 2001, 12:51:52AM EST]
> 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.

I was going to mention this, but it got lost in my list of
things-to-mention.  Setting up the lo interface and adding localhost to
/etc/hosts did the trick for me.  I think this should be added as
a standard step in the install docs.

Aron