On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 09:16:49AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> David Lamparter <[email protected]> writes:
> > Building with IPv6 disabled tends to break rather often and sprinkles
> > ugly #ifdefs around the code.  All that only to support systems where
> > the C library doesn't have IPv6 capability.
> >
> > The year now being 2015, if this is a problem the thing to fix is the C
> > library.
> >
> > The implication of this patch is that future patches need not care about
> > HAVE_IPV6 = 0 and may remove ifdefs gratuitously.  This patch doesn't
> > remove these ifdefs to not create unneccessary churn.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <[email protected]>
> 
> That is an interesting proposal, but I think this one needs a bit more
> thought.
> 
> I suppose this is different from choosing to build only the v4 protocol
> daemons.   pkgsrc does have an inet6 option (on by default of course) to
> cause packages not to do v6.
> 
> I will ask the netbsd folks; netbsd of course has had v6 for a really
> long time, more than 15 years, but some of them may have some useful
> opinions.

I have assumed a timeout on this and pushed the patchset.  If something
that mandates a course change here comes up after all, please send a
mail!

(Applied 6/6.)

_______________________________________________
Quagga-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev

Reply via email to