From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot now requires IPv6?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:48:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712164820.GC3680@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711164358.GT3870@tarshish>
Grant, Baruch,
On 2016-07-11 19:43 +0300, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:33:22PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > The products for which I use buildroot do not have IPv6 support
> > (that's in the product requirements). However, it appears that more
> > recent versions of Buildroot now force you to use a toolchain with
> > IPv6 support in the C library even if no applications uses IPv6 and
> > the kernel doesn't support IPV6.
> >
> > Do I understand this correctly?
>
> That's correct. The CHANGES entry for 2015.05-rc1 reads:
>
> Toolchains: IPv6 and Largefile support now enforced for
> uClibc. Corresponding Kconfig symbols removed.
>
> Only uClibc is mentioned here because other C libraries already enable IPv6
> unconditionally.
But nothing prevents you from running on a kernel that does not have
IPv6. The requirements are only about IPv6 support in the toolchain.
Maintaining support for non-IPv6 toolchains was becoming quite a
problem, as more and more packages were breaking with such toolchains.
And come on, we're in 2016, there is no more IPv4 available, it's time
to switch over to IPV6! ;-]
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-11 16:33 [Buildroot] Buildroot now requires IPv6? Grant Edwards
2016-07-11 16:43 ` Baruch Siach
2016-07-12 16:48 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-07-12 17:05 ` Grant Edwards
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