JuliaLang/julia — pull request #5945 by ihnorton (2014-02-25 02:47:55+00:00)
Title: Allow bootstrap with no external IP address

62d0b3d4 introduced a dependency on the availability of an external IP address, via getaddrinfo()
this breaks building when only a loopback address is available, such as on a VM or subway.

This PR fixes the following error during bootstrap, which I saw on the way home this evening and on a VirtualBox-hosted instance over the weekend (but was red-herringed by a Wine error at the time):

```
multi.jl
ERROR: ErrorException("no active external interfaces")
while loading multi.jl, in expression starting on line 188
while loading /cmn/jldev/base/sysimg.jl, in expression starting on line 138
```

cc: @loladiro @amitmurthy