From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 18 14:59:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3B437BAE8 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740EA137F6C; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:59:02 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA56028; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:59:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14509.52933.883241.459866@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:59:17 -0500 (EST) To: Chris Piazza Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 default in current ports? In-Reply-To: <20000218145710.A831@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <14509.50981.963519.987797@trooper.velocet.net> <20000218145710.A831@norn.ca.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Piazza writes: Chris> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:26:45PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> I've come up against a number of ports lately assume IPv6 support >> if you're running: >> >> .if ${OSVERSION} >= 400014 CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-ipv6 .endif >> >> ... I don't see INET6 in my GENERIC kernel. This affects at least >> net/mtr and lang/ruby. >> Chris> It doesn't need kernel support to build with ipv6 support. Chris> Trying to use the ipv6 support without it in the kernel is the Chris> only problem. Well... ruby refuses to build with IPv6 if it's not enabled and mtr dies with a "cannot open socket". In escence, both ports (and possibly others) don't work in 4.0 without INET6 in your kernel. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message