Hello Fabio, On Mon, 31 May 2004 21:28:47 +0200 (CEST) Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, [ISO-8859-15] J�rg Sch�tter wrote: > > > There are a lot of packages on your homepage which has additional ipv6 > > patches. But why are official debian packages shipped without the ipv6 > > support enabled? It's only a additional flag or something for the > > maintainer to make them ipv6-ready. > > Well there are several reasons. Sometimes packages need external patches > to support ipv6. mozilla-firefox for example is build by the maintainer without ipv6 enabled. Enabling it is no wizards job, here is the patch which worked for me: --- mozilla-firefox-0.8/build/package/debian/rules.orig 2004-05-28 22:27:13.000000000 +0200 +++ mozilla-firefox-0.8/build/package/debian/rules 2004-05-28 22:00:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export BUILD_OPT=1 export NO_STATIC_LIB=1 # untested upstream - export USE_IPV6=$(shell cpp debian/testipv6 | sh -) +USE_IPV6=$(shell cpp debian/testipv6 | sh -) export USE_PTHREADS=1 nspr = libnspr3 J�rg -- J�rg Sch�tter http://www.lug-untermain.de/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.schuetter.org/joerg/ ICQ: 298982789 http://mypenguin.bei.t-online.de/
