Re: bug in hostname

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

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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