[libvirt] [PATCH v3] BSD: implement virNetDev(Set|Clear)IPv4Address

[Roman Bogorodskiy]

  Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:

>   Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> > On 08/11/2013 07:54 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> > > Provide an implementation of virNetDev(Set|Clear)IPv4Address based on
> > > BSD ifconfig tool in addition to 'ip' from Linux iproute2 package.
> > > ---
> > >  configure.ac         | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > >  src/util/virnetdev.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > 
> > >  
> > >  if test $with_freebsd = yes; then
> > > +   want_ifconfig=yes
> > > +
> > >     with_firewalld=no
> > >  fi
> > >  
> > > @@ -2429,6 +2435,15 @@ AC_CHECK_DECLS([BRDGSFD, BRDGADD, BRDGDEL],
> > >                  #include <net/if_bridgevar.h>
> > >                 ])
> > >  
> > > +# Check if we need to look for ifconfig
> > > +if test "$want_ifconfig" = "yes"; then
> > > +     AC_PATH_PROG([IFCONFIG_PATH], [ifconfig])
> > > +     if test -z "$IFCONFIG_PATH"; then
> > > +         AC_MSG_ERROR([Failed to find ifconfig.])
> > 
> > This means that configure will fail if ifconfig is not installed but
> > want_ifconfig was set.  Are you certain enough that FreeBSD is likely to
> > have ifconfig by default, and thus not hit this failure except on
> > extremely unlikely configurations?
> 
> ifconfig is a part of FreeBSD base system. And appears it's not even
> possible to disable installing it via make.conf [1]. So I doubt there
> are a lot of systems without ifconfig, and even if they exist I'm not
> sure we need to support them because, as you said, it's extremely
> unlikely configuration.
> 
> 1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make.conf&sektion=5

One correction:

The proper man would be:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=src.conf

It's possible to build using WITHOUT_INET to disable IPv4 networking,
but again, I doubt that we should support such systems.

Roman Bogorodskiy
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