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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:25:08 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] iproute2 failing for x86_64 with ext. toolchain
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:06:54 +0300
Pkun <serj.kalichev@gmail.com> wrote:

> The author of iproute2 did't accept my patch. Moreover the problem is
> not with a bad patch. The author don't want to make IPv6 support
> optional and don't want to make iproute2 configurable. From netdev
> mailing list: to my question about optional IPv6 he wrote: "Because I
> want iproute to be a complete tool, not a user configurable nightmare.
> Just look at busybox to see what over configuration is." It's strange
> for me. So the upstream problems with iproute2 build system will
> continue.

So, just make iproute2 depends on BR2_INET_IPV6. iproute2 is a fairly
advanced networking utility, so it doesn't sound unreasonable to have
it depend on IPv6 support.

Regards,

Thomas
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