Why the --disable-ipv6 option does not work?

[Edvard Tuinder]

According to won seok:
> Dear Edvard
> 
> Thank you for your advice. 
> According to your opinion, I tried to compile the kernel again to
> exclude the IPv6 function.
> But unfortunately it gave me another problem. I must have more skill
> to compile the kernel.
> So, I decided to modify the configure file of the Bind9 so as not to
> detect the ipv6 functionality. It seemed to succeed. It shows "no" at
> checking ipv6 releated function. But the compilation of the bind9
> still showed any errors.

I didn't exactely say to recompile the linux kernel without IPv6 support.
I said to take care to have no active IPv6 interface, so do not configure
them, even though your kernel might support it.

Also do not try to hack the configure script. If you really really want to,
you could modify configure.in, but you really shouldn't.

Just compile bind as it is, it does not really matter if it has IPv6 support.
If your system has no IPv6 interfaces, or you use the listen-on-v6 { none;};
option, bind will not do IPv6.

So compile all programs (kernel and bind) just as they are and let them decide
to add IPv6 as they see fit. You just take care to have either no IPv6 interfaces
or specifically tell bind (the run-time) to not use them.

-Ed