[Buildroot] Buildroot now requires IPv6?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Grant,

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.

baruch

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