Re: TCP socket error

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 05:13 PM, 
tessonec@cyrrus.inifta.unlp.edu.ar wrote:

> Hello:
>
>       I successfully compiled and installed gnustep core libraries 
> 1.0.0.
> But I still have some problems I suffered when I tried to install 0.6.7
> version.
>
>       Well, I installed the whole thing. But when I tried to run an
> example (i.e. Calculator.app in the following text), What I get in the
> console where I ran the app is:
>
>
> Apr 16 10:37:10 Calculator[1105] Host 'localhost' not found using 
> 'gethostbyname()' -
> perhaps the hostname is wrong or networking is not set up on your 
> machine

<snip>

> The machine where I installed gnustep is
> PIII 550 128Mb RAM (I guess all these doesn't matter)
> I  don't have  network configured at all since it is a standalone 
> machine
>
> Can anybody help me

Set up your networking ... standalone machines need networking for 
inter-process
communications.

At the very least your machine should have localhost set to the IP 
address 127.0.0.1
and really you should have a hostname for your machine.