# New Ticket Created by Frederick Alexander Thomssen # Please include the string: [perl #24728] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24728 >
hi, I ran into troubles when installing perl 5.8.1/5.8.2/5.9.0 on a SuSE machine I think it is a SuSE 8.1): ./Configure aborted with the error message "Configure: line 8199: set: -s: invalid option" after "Figuring out host name...". The problem is in the file hints/linux.sh in lines 217-229. There runs a check that uses csh/tcsh. This SuSE-tcsh seems to have a problem with hostname - when you run hostname it returns "-s" - even after returning to bash (which is my standard shell). So somewhere hostname will still return "-s" and brings me this error message. I now commented these lines from hints/linux.sh out and it works... I suggest to check if hostname still runs properly after these lines or using the variable $HOSTNAME... freddy -- Frederick Alexander Thomssen Bondenwald 49 D-22453 Hamburg DEUTSCHLAND [EMAIL PROTECTED]
