Armin K. wrote:
> On 14.1.2014 22:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> We removed inetutils from BLFS some time ago. I have been looking at
>> the new inetutils for LFS and note that it installs ifconfig if not
>> disabled (we do disable it). The other place for ifconfig is net-tools
>> and that package seems to be unmaintained (We install CVS_20101030 in BLFS).
>>
>> We can install ifconfig in LFS in inetutils by adding one line:
>>
>> #define PATH_PROCNET_DEV "/proc/net/dev" to ifconfig/system/linux.c.
>>
>> I'm inclined to do this because the output format of ifconfig is useful
>> and it makes the version of ifconfig the maintained instance.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> ifconfig is deprecated anyways. I doubt it can be said that it is
> maintained just because new versions of inetutils are released often
> than net-tools, especially since inetutils contains more than just ifconfig.
>
> net-utils are required for virtuoso in BLFS, but other than that, I see
> no use for it. ip can already do everything ifconfig does and more.
Yes, I know it's deprecated, but it is still comfortable for a lot of
users. Do you know of any distros without it?
This is what I came up with:
echo '#define PATH_PROCNET_DEV "/proc/net/dev"' >> ifconfig/system/linux.h
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
--localstatedir=/var \
--disable-logger \
--disable-syslogd \
--disable-whois \
--disable-servers
make
...
So we only have to add one line and delete one option to include it.
-- Bruce
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