On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:50:59AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > David Lamparter <[email protected]> writes: > >> That is an interesting proposal, but I think this one needs a bit more > >> thought. > > > > I would've appreciated these comments 5 months ago when Paul posted his > > "require IPv6 API built-time support" patches... that should really > > have been ample time to voice concerns. > > I didn't see it then, and just now I thought you said this patch was new > on the list. I don't see that there's a within-days rush now. > > All I meant was to discuss it explicitly vs it being inside one of a > largish group of patches. > [quote cut] > > If disabling inet6 on NetBSD builds a libc without IPv6 support, thus > > causing Quagga to fail build with IPv6 enabled, I believe the best > > solution would be to disallow building Quagga on NetBSD systems without > > inet6. > > I was talking about pkgsrc vs base. The inet6 option is usually > intended to be about not trying to *use* v6. People end up with broken > v6 functionality (due to provider issues) and lose, and want to tell > programs not to use v6. > > There is no know to build the base system without IPv6 (headers, libc). > One can disable INET6 (or INET, for that matter) in the kernel, but then > the calls just return errors.
That was what I was assuming / hoping for :). It really doesn't make much sense for a system to switch off part of the system headers. Aren't they even required by POSIX or something like that? > I was asking more to see if there is something we are overlooking. I > expect there will be results to my query to [email protected] > (including possibly no answers) within a couple of days. Sure, a couple of days won't hurt. -rc1 is just out, so people need time to look at it anyway. If this stretches beyond a week, I guess this patch just won't be part of the 0.99.24 release. (Which I'd be a little sad about, but well.) -David _______________________________________________ Quagga-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
