On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current configure environment forced me to install ppp for the > development headers. I neither use nor care about ppp, so the same > argument could be applied there.
Not really. ppp is a build time dependency, NM would not build without it. dhcp clients are runtime dependencies. Tambet > The reason why it's a build time check is that it's a lot easier to > check the clients work in a shell script than in C at runtime. > > 1) Only dhcpcd-4 works with NM - older versions will not > 2) Only ISC dhclient works with NM - derived versions will not > (OpenBSD and FreeBSD have their own trimmed down versions with POSIX > command line and don't have all the options needed) > >> I'd say, if an absolute path is given (i.e. >> --with-dhcp-client=/sbin/dhclient), simply take this path and do no >> further checks. Imo it's safe to assume, if someone is using the >> configure flag this way, he knows what he's doing. > > That's probably a safe assumption to make. > > Thanks > > Roy > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
