On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:22:51PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: >On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:55 -0700, Chris Larson wrote: >> Should this (ipv6 at least) use COMBINED_FEATURES, since it requires >> kernel/machine support for it to be useful, along with distro support? > >I don't think it's machine dependent in any meaningful way; there is, to >my knowledge, no OE-supported hardware which is actually incapable of >supporting ipv6. Any distro that wants to use it just needs to make >sure that the kernel support is present (either built-in or as a module)
the kernel configury should also look whether it should enable socket/ipv4/ipv6 or any combination. There are quite some packages out there who can be configured with --disable-ipv6 ¹) and these should probably also honor the distro's ipv6 choice, for example. I think it would also be good to put USE_NLS into DISTRO_FEATURES as "nls" like it was done for busybox and uclibc, yes? ¹) bind, mutt, libpcap, iptables, net-snmp, lighttpd, tcpdump, python, quagga come to mind, to name just a few. Not sure if all of them detect this properly so i tend to turn it off via configure. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
