[oe-issues] [Bug 2765] Upgrade to net-snmp 5.4.1

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2765





--- Comment #2 from Jamie Lenehan <lenehan at twibble.org>  2007-08-18 03:51:56 ---
The perl stuff is problematic. 

For embedded perl it's using the host perl and/or native-perl (bits of both
here) to determine the settings for perl. Those are obviously for the host
system and not for the target and so won't work without some effort.

For the perl modules it's a similiar story. The perl modules could be build
reasonably easy via the method cpan.bbclass uses. That'd probably need a
-native version of net-snmp and a seperate net-snmp-modules .bb though.

Having said said that I don't think I want perl in the net-snmp build. Do you
really need perl in net-snmp? It's a lot to pull in already without require all
of perl to run. 

Adding "--disable-embedded-perl --with-perl-modules=no" to EXTRA_OECONF
disables perl and allows it to build ok here and the snmp client utilities seem
to all work. However the server doesn't work because of some missing shared
libraries (libnetsnmpagent.so.15 for example). These failed to install due to
libtool trying to relink during the install stage with the hosts libc, failing
and then not installing the libraries.

I was testing with an x86-64 host and sh4 target. You probably wouldn't see
these issues if building on x86 for an x86 target.

I'll fix up the link problem, disable perl, test and commit this shortly.
Thanks.


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