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

[Simon Josefsson]

loytsos <address@hidden> writes:

> I ran once more 'grep IPV6 config.h', in the correct directory this time:
>
> root:/sources/inetutils-1.9.1# grep IPV6 config.h
> #define HAVE_IPV6 1
> #define HAVE_IPV6_V6ONLY 1
> #define IPV6 1
> /* Define to IPV6_2292HOPLIMIT if not available */
> /* #undef IPV6_HOPLIMIT */
> /* Define to IPV6_HOPLIMIT if not available */
> /* #undef IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT */

This means your system supports IPv6.

> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

When I run 'ifconfig', I also have this line:

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

Your output means that your system is not configured with a IPv6
loopback interface.

> Also, I would like to mention that 'make' and 'make install' commands
> while building the inetutils did not produce any failure messages. The
> only problem I faced was while executing 'make check'.

That is normal.  The self tests requires a IPv6 loopback interface to
work.  The tools that were installed on your system does not.

/Simon