Re: [bug-inetutils] NFS server for GNU inetutils

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:35:42AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > 1.4.2 works pretty well for GNU/FreeBSD (i'm using ftpd in a production
> > system already), but doesn't seem to include ifconfig.
> 
> The ifconfig is not finished (flag support is missing entirely, and thus it
> is not fully usable) and definitely doesn't have all features from the
> system's ifconfig - although it is extensible and can be adopted to the
> system's native command line syntax in addition to the GNU syntax.
> (In addition, the output is formattable, which makes it a pretty weird
> polymorphic piece of software).
> 
> You need to enable it manually in configure.ac.

I see.. I think we'll stick with FreeBSD's ifconfig for now (there prbably
isn't much trouble getting it working with native Glibc)

I might hack on GNU ifconfig later..

-- 
Robert Millan