Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:37:35 +0100 From: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org> To: Yarema <yds@dppl.com> Cc: Paul Andrews <andrews@powersurfr.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SNMP and mod_php4 Message-ID: <20010125013735.C25048@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <3A6F4F74.53F5B1B4@dppl.com>; from yds@dppl.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:56:04PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0101231957540.1983-100000@fearless.leader.extorted.ca> <3A6F4F74.53F5B1B4@dppl.com>
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Hi!
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:56:04PM -0500, Yarema wrote:
> Paul Andrews wrote:
> >
> > First off I would like to say the support here for the freebsd ports has
> > been great. I am trying to build mod_php4 with SNMP support. However when
> > it comes to compiling the dependency for SNMP the following is displayed:
> >
> > SNMP is DISABLED for now. Ignoring.
> >
> > When I look at the configure.php script I find that under the SNMP section
> > there are two options
> >
> > \"SNMP\")
> > echo "SNMP is DISABLED for now. Ignoring." >/dev/stderr
> > ;;
> > \"nothing\")
> > echo "LIB_DEPENDS+= snmp.4:\${PORTSDIR}/net/ucd-snmp"
> > echo "CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-snmp=\${PREFIX} --enable-ucd-snmp-hack"
> > ;;
> >
> > The main question is why is SNMP support disabled and secondly if I
> > replace nothing with SNMP and build the port it fails because ucd-snmp no
> > longer exists in the ports tree, should it not be net-snmp.
> >
> > Finally what is the enable-ucd-snmp-hack actually do.. When I went to
> > php.net and searched for snmp it said to make sure to uncomment the
> > NO_ZEROLENGTH_COMMUNITY from the config.h file. I noticed that when I
> > compile net-snmp that this was not uncommented. Does the
> > enable-ucd-snmp-hack solve this issue, or would it be better to compile
> > net-snmp with the NO_ZEROLENGTH_COMMUNITY string uncommented.
>
> I don't actually use SNMP with mod_php4 but I've been building php4 with
> SNMP support fo a while on a veriety of machines by simply deleting the
> following lines:
>
> echo "SNMP is DISABLED for now. Ignoring." >/dev/stderr
> ;;
> \"nothing\")
>
> I see no reason why it should be disabled other than a long time ago
> SNMP was broken. I wasn't aware of the NO_ZEROLENGTH_COMMUNITY issue.
> I believe enable-ucd-snmp-hack also only applies to very old versions of
> ucd-snmp and php.
>
> If nobody else is doing it I can send-pr a fix for the above issue as
> well as enabling support for pdflib3 which works fine.
No need to send a PR. I'll look at this issue.
Regards Dirk
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Dirk Froemberg
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