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

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    > 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.

I think there actually may be three things to check for: 1) IPv6 APIs
exists, 2) IPv6 APIs works, 3) system configuration (e.g., loopback
interface) are sane.

I'm inclined to treat this as a documentation issue until we have
decided what code to modify to improve this problem...

/Simon