Re: Is INET6 a required option these days? (kernel build failure)

From: Zhenlei Huang <zlei_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:45:44 UTC

> On Sep 27, 2024, at 6:07 PM, Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:58:40 -0400
> Ian FREISLICH <ianfreislich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Lately there have been a couple of commits that fail to build because v6 being compiled in despite INET6 being undefined. I think the latest is 905db4aa88775865097714c170f4503da385747c.
>> 
>> /usr/src/sys/netpfil/pf/pf.c:8762:38: error: no member named 'icmp6' in 'union pf_headers'; did you mean 'icmp'?
>>  8762 |                 if (!pf_pull_hdr(m, *off, &pd->hdr.icmp6, icmp_hlen,
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
> 
> This happens now and then because most committers have INET6 enabled and
> they forget that INET6 is an option and not mandatory.

Kristof is landing lots of commits from upstream ( OpenBSD ), so we need be patient with him ...

> 
> I don't have INET6 enabled and have reported a number of problems in the
> source as a result of that.
> 
> In general it's pretty simple to fix these problems by merely adding
> #ifdef INET6 ... #endif to the code.
> 
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
> 

Best regards,
Zhenlei