Details on this package are located in Section 8.65.2, “Contents of IPRoute2.”
The IPRoute2 package contains programs for basic and advanced IPV4-based networking. Now we need ip from it to bring up loopback network interface, which is expected by the testsuites of various packages.
Compile the package:
PKG_CONFIG=false make SUBDIRS='lib ip'
The meaning of the environment and overriden make variables:
PKG_CONFIG=false
The building system attempts to find dependencies with pkg-config, which is not installed yet. We can override it since ip utility does not need these dependencies.
SUBDIRS='lib
ip'
Only build the ip utility from the package and disable the build of other utilities. This is needed to prevent a build failure due to the lack of some dependencies.
It's not needed to install the ip utility now. Just bring up the loopback interface:
ip/ip link set lo up
Verify the result:
ip/ip addr
The command above should show 127.0.0.1/8 as the IPv4 address of lo, and ::1/128 as
the IPv6 address.
Details on this package are located in Section 8.65.2, “Contents of IPRoute2.”