From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:48:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot now requires IPv6? In-Reply-To: <20160711164358.GT3870@tarshish> References: <20160711164358.GT3870@tarshish> Message-ID: <20160712164820.GC3680@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'