On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:43 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > <grr> IIRC, the amd64 buildd runs in a vserver, which does nasty > > things to how interfaces are seen from userspace. This may be a > > symptom of that. > > It's possible to reproduce the problem locally if you shut down all your > interfaces (/sbin/ifconfig shows nothing) before building. This is > clearly a bug in the upstream configury. A local config.cache override > might be in order.
I agree. Suggestions as to how we can detect that we can detect interfaces, but that there are none, might be acceptable. That said, a system that can't even report that the loopback device exists is a pretty poor system... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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