[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/nfs-utils: enable IPv6 if libtirpc is selected

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Aug 13 12:14:41 UTC 2019


On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:47:06 -0300
Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's an optional dependency only if we decide to make ipv6 optional,
> which goes against the decision taken years go, according to Arnout's
> comment[1]: "We decided a few years ago to no longer make ipv6 support
> in packages optional, i.e. always assume it is there." That's why by
> default autotools packages are configured with --enable-ipv6 (see
> package/pkg-autotools.mk).
> 
> 1. https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10806#c1

But then in this case, we should entirely drop the RPC support for
uClibc-ng, as it doesn't support IPv6 if I remember correctly, and
simply force libtirpc for all packages that need RPC support. This is
not just something specific to nfs-utils, we have a number of other
packages that use RPC.

Thomas
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