dhclient less functional with nanobsd because of NO_CXX

[Brooks Davis]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 01:27:58AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> Observation on dependencies between components and nanobsd:
> 
> In the old world order, dhclient backgrounded and waited for the link 
> state to come up.  In the new world order, dhclient exits if the link 
> state is down, relying on devd to restart it.  devd isn't build if NO_CXX 
> is set, as it's written in C++, and NO_CXX is a useful (and default) thing 
> to set for nanobsd for obvious reasons.  It sounds like something here is 
> an argument for:
> 
> - Allowing C++ to be built as a build dependency, but not installed.
> - Rewriting devd to not be in C++.
> - Providing an option so that dhclient's old and useful behavior can be
>   restored.
> 
> Glancing at the dhclient man page didn't suggest an obvious command line 
> flag for "don't exit on no link state"...

As a workaround of sorts, you could install the ifstated port.  Fixing
the build to build g++ and not install it is probalby best.

-- Brooks

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