Hi,
If you don't have a need for IPV6, then don't compile it in.
Just run "make config" and select no for IPV6.
what distribution and kernel are you currently running?
Tuan
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, McKisson, Shawn wrote:
> 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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