Re: [bug-inetutils] Inetutils-1.9.1 building failure.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > Seeing that the operating system you are using is GNU/Linux, then
   > it does support IPv6.  But for whatever reasons, your kernel
   > (Linux) can have IPv6 support disabled.  Can you check?  The
   > directory /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ should exist with some files in it.

   The directory you mentioned does not exist.

Then your kernel was not compiled with IPv6 support, and thus it is
impossible for IU to work on your system unless you recompile it
(Linux) with support for IPv6.

But as a side note, the situation here is interesting.  IPv6 is a two
headed beast, the issue really boils down to that we only check if the
IPv6 API exists; not that it actually works.  The same is really the
case for IPv4.  Should we worry about this? Add a more specific
checks, that actually exercise the IPvX stack?

I'm not sure.