[ECOS] eCos build fails when INET support is disabled

[Gary D. Thomas]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 04:50, Chris Garry wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary.thomas@mind.be>
> To: "Chris Garry" <cgarry@sweeneydesign.co.uk>
> Cc: "eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos build fails when INET support is disabled
> 
> 
> <--snip>
> > > Should it be possible to build eCos with INET disabled?
> > 
> > Possibly not, we've never tried it ;-)
> > 
> > Why would you want to [in this day and age]?
> > 
> It was just somethig I tried while looking into the
> 'Driver can't set multi-cast mode [eth_drv_ioctl] ' warning on the console.
> 
> 'But should eCos have options included that don't make real sense + break the build?'
> Was more where I was heading.

I see.  In the case of the networking stacks, the options presented
by eCos are pretty straight forward mappings of the options available
when building the stack on xBSD.  I wouldn't be surprised if this
would break if you tried to build FreeBSD with a similar setup.

As for eCos configuration options - outside of the networking stack -
you should not find such breakage and we'd like to know if you do.

A long time ago, in the mists of eCos' birth, we had plans (and even
some attempts at implementing) randomized, full coverage of all 
configuration options.  As eCos grew this became an exponentially
large problem and over time was allowed to wither.  If one wanted to
attempt this today, we'd enjoy seeing the results :-)

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