fping6 no more builds: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘struct in_addr’ from type ‘struct in6_addr’ about fping

[schweikert]

I think that this is caused by the way you build fping6. Looking at this:

http://sources.debian.net/src/fping/3.6-1/debian/rules

override_dh_auto_configure:
    mkdir build build/ipv4 build/ipv6
    cp -a $$(find * -maxdepth 0 ! -name build) build
    cd build/ipv4; ../configure
    cd build/ipv6; ../configure

override_dh_auto_build:
    $(MAKE) -C build/ipv4
    $(MAKE) -C build/ipv6 CPPFLAGS='-DIPV6=1 $(CPPFLAGS)'

Could you change it to use --enable-ipv6 and --enable-ipv4, instead of setting CPPFLAGS? Note that you can use both options and build fping+fping6 in one go.

[xtaran]

Thanks for the hint that both can be build in one go. That makes the packaging less complicated!

I suspect the complicated build system was created because that possibility didn't exist at some time in the past or at least wasn't that obvious.

It builds fine if I build both binaries in one go.