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

[Simon Josefsson]

loytsos <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am building LFS 7.1 and I am facing a problem in chapter 6.34.
> This is the error I get after testing the compilation results:
...
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms
> --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.048/0.048/0.048/0.000 ms
> Failed at pinging ::1.
> FAIL: ping-localhost.sh

Hi!  Is IPv6 working?  The self-test tries to ping ::1.  If that doesn't
work, for example if you haven't configured the interfaces correctly,
the self-test will fail.  The rest of the build should be fine though.

Probably the self-check should only test IPv6 if config.h defines IPV6.

/Simon