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diff --git a/doc/developer/building-libyang.rst b/doc/developer/building-libyang.rst index 005b6ba786..c45c294b75 100644 --- a/doc/developer/building-libyang.rst +++ b/doc/developer/building-libyang.rst @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ The libyang library can be installed from third-party packages available `here Note: the libyang dev/devel packages need to be installed in addition to the libyang core package in order to build FRR successfully. +.. warning:: + libyang ABI version 0.16.74 or newer will be required to build FRR in the + near future since it significantly eases build and installation + considerations. "0.16-r3" is equal to 0.16.105 and will work, "0.16-r2" + is equal to 0.16.52 and will stop working. The CI artifacts will be + updated shortly. + For example, for CentOS 7.x: .. code-block:: shell @@ -21,6 +28,14 @@ or Ubuntu 18.04: sudo apt install libpcre3-dev sudo dpkg -i libyang-dev_0.16.46_amd64.deb libyang_0.16.46_amd64.deb +.. note:: + For Debian-based systems, the official libyang package requires recent + versions of swig (3.0.12) and debhelper (11) which are only available in + Debian buster (10). However, libyang packages built on Debian buster can + be installed on both Debian jessie (8) and Debian stretch (9), as well as + various Ubuntu systems. The python3-yang package will not work, but the + other packages (libyang-dev is the one needed for FRR) will. + Alternatively, libyang can be built and installed manually by following the steps below: |