Re: Can't link kernel after recent libalias commits?

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:09:55 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Paolo Pisati wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:04:33PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
>> On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:46, Paolo Pisati wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:43:21PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>>> Note that this was for a kernel that uses ipfw, but not natd (ref.
>>>> src/sys/conf/NOTES).
>>>
>>> my mistake, i'll write an entry for UPDATING.
>>
>> Shouldn't it still be possible to build a kernel with IPFW but without 
>> LIBALIAS?  i.e. instead of a UPDATING entry you should just wrap the 
>> libalias entry points in IPFW - or am I misunderstanding what you are 
>> saying?
>
> with my last commit, LIBALIAS became mandatory for IPFW, and this adds 40kb 
> (-O nocona) to my kernel size.
>
> If it's really an issue, i can change it.

Yes -- I'd prefer it if we could make LIBALIAS optional for IPFW, similar to 
dummynet, ipdivert, etc.  Is this something done without too much trouble?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Received on Sun Dec 31 2006 - 14:28:43 UTC

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