On 11 September 2015 at 13:53, Emanuele Rusconi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I noticed that the inetutils ping-localhost test fails on my > system. Specifically, the ping6 fails, because it can't find ::1 (I > don't even know how to properly setup ipv6). > Maybe a notice about this could be added? It seems innocuous enough > for ipv4 users. > Unfortunately, the test suite isn't very verbose: I needed to run the > script individually to see what was failing. > > Also (but I checked after completing the build of the entire LFS), > libls.sh seems to succeed with "make -j1 check", while with "make -j8 > check" it _sometimes_ fails. > I didn't checked this during the build, yet. > I've already reported a bug in the inetutils ping6 tool to Bruce. That version won't allow pinging by hostname, unless a different hostname from the IPv4 entry is used. Looking at your post, however, it appears to be a slightly different problem, as you say it can't find ::1. In any event, Bruce felt that it was not significant enough to justify the work, and the additional packages that would be needed, in the basic LFS book, particularly as IPv6 is not dealt with in the book. Also, none of the devs have IPV6 enabled boxes. I would offer my services but I have too much work on at present. However, that may change. BTW, the ping6 tool from the iputils package (not in the book) works flawlessly. As a workaround for the inetutils version, list all the IPv6 entries in /etc/hosts before all the IPv4 entries, then it should work as expected. You say that you're not sure how to properly set up IPv6. If you can be more specific maybe I can help. IPv4 and IPv6 coexist quite happily, and you can, if you wish, have more than one IPv6 address per host/interface. Richard
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