| Some notes for the AIX port |
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| 1. Known problems |
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| There are the following known problems on AIX: |
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| 1) Shared libraries |
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| Building net-snmp on AIX with shared libraries is known to either make the |
| applications not start at all or segfault. The workaround is to disable shared |
| libraries: |
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| ./configure --disable-shared |
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| Until this issue is resolved, there's also no way to use embedded perl (which |
| requires shared libraries) on AIX. |
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| 2) "grep: capacity exceeded" during configure |
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| The version of "grep" shipped with AIX versions up to (and including) 5.1 |
| has a known limitation of only supporting a maximum of 2048 characters per line. |
| This may cause a significant number of "grep: capacity exceeded" errors during |
| configure which breaks the build. See bug 1367794 for details. The fix is to |
| either install GNU grep (and have it in PATH before the AIX grep) or to upgrade |
| to AIX 5.2 or later. |
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| 3) nlist errors with 64-bit kernels |
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| Accessing certain MIB objects on AIX 5.x machines running a 64-bit kernel will |
| trigger nlist errors. If the agent aborts due to those errors, you may want to |
| try running "snmpd -r ..." which instructs the agent to ignore them. Later |
| net-snmp versions are expected to improve the support for AIX 64-bit kernels. |
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| 2. Patches |
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| You may want to have a look for existing AIX patches in our patches tracker |
| (http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/). If you can offer patches yourself to |
| improve the AIX support, please submit them there. |
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| 3. Feedback |
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| Please also see README and PORTING. |
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| If you have questions, additional insights or (even better) patches regarding |
| net-snmp on AIX, please refer to the net-snmp mailing lists (see |
| http://www.net-snmp.org/lists). |
