Re: 5.2.2.pre3 on Debian

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Thomas Anders wrote:

> Peder Chr. Norgaard wrote:
> >
> > What I did was to pick up the Debian-related patches from a recent
> > packaging that the Debian maintainer of net-snmp, Jochen Friedrich, mad=
e
> > to Debian experimental. It was based on CVS 2005-08-15, and it applies
> > equally well to the 5.2.2.pre3.
>
> Are those patches specific to the Debian package building process or are
> there any additional patches of general applicability? We'd expect them
> to appear in our patch tracker, then.

That is definitely for the Debian maintainer and not me to state. The
patches are on record (any debian
mirror/debian/pool/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.2.1.2+cvs20050815-1.diff.gz
for anyone interested to study. Personally, I would trust the Debian
maintainer to forward all patches to you guys that he judges to be of
general interest.

>
> > What did not work for me was trying the sequence in the debian/rules fi=
les
> > for 5.2.1.2-3, without the related debian-specific patches - it failed.
>
> Does a generic "./configure ... && make && make test" with 5.2.2.pre3
> work out of the box for you?

Now, why did I not think of trying that myself? I must have worked Debian
too long :-( The answer is, yes, it works, including the tests. The full
agent probably won't work on the system but that is because the Debian
maintainer's patches modifies the search paths for configuration files, to
better adhere to Debian standards.

> > It might be a good idea to add a few words to the INSTALL file about th=
e
> > roles of libtoolize, aclocal and autoconf ...?
>
> This isn't specific to net-snmp and is documented in the autoconf manual
> (where it belongs).

I wasn't thinking about a white paper on libtool and autoconfiguration,
rather one or two lines telling under which circumstances it would be
relevant for a user trying to install net-snmp to use these tools to
generate customized configure script.

But, please stop that discussion here. There are no problems with the
pre3 and Debian - and I must move on to the thing that is important to me
- the bug that crashes the agent.

best regards

--
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