[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] iputils: new package

[mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com]

Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote on 09/19/2013 
09:59:17 AM:

> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> To: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> Cc: mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com, buildroot at busybox.net
> Date: 09/19/2013 09:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] iputils: new package
> 
> Arnout, Matthew,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:45:30 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
> > > After removing libsysfs and libcap (below) that leaves openssl. 
Since
> > > that's conditional, would something like this be reasonable?
> > > if BR2_INET_IPV6
> > >          select BR2_OPENSSL
> > > endif
> > 
> >   Correct, except that it should be:
> > 
> >    select BR2_OPENSSL if BR2_INET_IPV6
> 
> Just curious: does this package really needs OpenSSL only when IPv6
> support is available? At first sight, I don't quite see why SSL support
> and IPv6 support would be related, but maybe I'm missing something?
> 

Yeah, only for IPv6 doing a md5 sum.  What's the cleanest way to comment 
that in the Config.in?  Part of the description?

> At least, this unusual select should carry a comment above it that
> explains why it is needed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> -- 
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
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