I've spent the weekend trying to move to the new 2.2 kernel, and I was able
to upgrade all the relevant packages with the exception of the net-tools
package.
While compiling iptunnel.c in the net-tools package, it tries to look for
calls inet_pton and inet_ntop in the ./lib/lib.a and the ./lib/libnettools.a
libraries. I took a look at these libraries, and those calls are there, but
they are external. Thus I went off looking in my /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib
directory for a library that might contain these calls, but I found nothing.
After rereading the docs, I realized that I am a little confused on what is
needed for compilation with the lib5 library. It mentions something about
having IPv6 libraries in place while compiling with libc5, but I thought
that IPv6 was experimental in the 2.2 kernel. I did find a package called
inet6-apps, which compiles a library that included inet_pton and inet_ntop,
however I was hesitant to install it for fear that it would break some other
things...
Do I need to move to IPv6 in order to compile net-tools?
What library should I have that contains the necessary calls for compiling
net-tools?
--shawn
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