[Buildroot] latest iptables requires IPv6

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 10 08:02:38 UTC 2008


Le Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:05:05 +1100,
Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au> a écrit :

> It looks like a few functions in xtables.c could be disabled, and
> Makefile.am modified not to compile the ipv6-specific programs
> (ip6tables etc).. all this would need a runtime IPV6 detection because
> of external toolchains.

Users of external toolchains are supposed to tell in the configuration
system whether their external toolchain supports IPv6 or not.

See toolchain/external-toolchain/Config.in, option BR2_INET_IPV6.

Thomas
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