libnl-3.2.23-rc1: wish request

[Thomas Graf]

On 10/23/13 at 11:00am, balducci at units.it wrote:
> hello,
> 
> apologies if I am missing some blatant point.
> 
> 
> Just tried to build 3.2.23-rc1 and I seem to understand that VXLAN
> support in the kernel is unconditionally required:
> 
>     route/link/vxlan.c:32:38: fatal error: netlink/route/link/vxlan.h: No such file or directory
>      #include <netlink/route/link/vxlan.h>
>                                           ^
>     compilation terminated.
>     Makefile:1077: recipe for target 'route/link/vxlan.lo' failed
>     make[3]: *** [route/link/vxlan.lo] Error 1
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I am a (n almost) total ignorant about vxlan and
> networking in general: however, I have lived quite well until now
> without vxlan in the kernel (I manually build kernels since a very long
> time);
> 
> So my wish request is:
> 
>      would it be possible to make this vxlan support
>      optional in the build (may be with a configure option)?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your work and, again, apologies if I am
> misunderstanding something here

It's actually not missing kernel support causing this error but a
failed libnl header file in the tarball. It has already been fixed.
I will push out libnl-3.2.23-rc2 any minute to account for this.