On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 04:51:19PM +0000, Matt Burgess wrote: > > > > Ouch! I was watching this with interest (I need libnl to > > build-test NetworkManager for gnome-3: havn't quite got there yet), > > and when you mentioned a newer version I downloaded libnl-3.2.3. > > > > Perhaps 2.0 is indeed better (it appears not to have created static > > libs for you, which is nice - I had to pass --enable-static=no). Or > > perhaps the altered structure in 3.2, plus the absence of > > pkg-config, will make things in LFS too awkward. > > 3.2 had the incompatible-with-iproute2 structure, 3.1/3.0 wanted Python > and couldn't easily be convinced to not use it, so I just went back to > 2.0 which didn't complain about anything! > > If you run into issues with 2.0, just let me know. libnl-git apparently > removes the mandatory Python dependency, and the sed to make iproute2 > find the new header location should be relatively trivial, so I'm happy > to work on making LFS use a BLFS-compatible libnl version if it isn't > already. > > Cheers, > > Matt. > Thanks. I'm sure it will be fine - 1.1 apparently was ok for NM, and I actually enjoyed using sed to add the required header so it would compile. 3.2.3 seems to be fine, so I'm sure 2.0 will be too.
I *will* be testing that combination, but for the moment I'm stuck at an oddity in the NetworkManager dhclient test results, which is taking me a little time to understand. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
