| README.osX |
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| This is what I had to do to get it to work for me. Your mileage may vary. |
| If this doesn't work for you, or you have fixes for any problems listed, |
| please post to <net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net>. Thanks! |
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| - ALL |
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| - Test 44 (Perl AgentX Subagent) fails. |
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| - configure with --enable-as-needed for proper libperl linking |
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| - nlist doesn't support icmpstat |
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| - disable the icmp module during configure by specifying |
| "--with-out-mib-modules=mibII/icmp", or at startup by adding |
| "-I -icmp" to the snmpd command line. |
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| - 10.4.7 (Universal) and Leopard with 5.4 sources: |
| [Supplied by Chris Jalbert, slightly updated] |
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| - build using gcc 4.0 (see below) and configure using: |
| --with-persistent-directory=/var/db/net-snmp \ |
| --with-defaults \ |
| --without-rpm \ |
| --with-mib-modules="host ucd-snmp/diskio" \ |
| --with-out-mib-modules="mibII/icmp host/hr_swrun" \ |
| --enable-as-needed \ |
| --without-kmem-usage |
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| The first line sets up persistent storage in the OS X standard location. |
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| The third line is necessary because RPM is not properly disabled. |
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| The fourth line includes those modules appear to build properly and |
| mostly work. The next line is necessary because those sub-modules |
| do not build. |
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| The final line is necessary because /dev/kmem was removed in |
| the Intel / Universal builds of the OS, and I believe the APIs will |
| be removed in Leopard. |
| This line is the most critical for proper building on OS X. |
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| - 10.3.x and earlier |
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| - Some older versions of Apple's cpp doesn't like configure. |
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| - run 'gcc_select' to see what version you are using, and |
| 'gcc_select -l' to list available versions. I've had success with |
| 3.3, selected by running (as root) 'gcc_select 3.3'. (Note: this was |
| on Panther, 10.3.2) |
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| - Some older versions of net-snmp as installed by Apple contains |
| bad flags in net-snmp-config. |
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| - build your own version, and install over Apple's version. The |
| configure flags you need for the same configuration: |
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| configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man |
| --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-libwrap --with-defaults |
| --prefix=/usr --with-persistent-directory=/var/db/ucd-snmp |
| --with-mib-modules=host |
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| With Mac OS X 10.5.2, and Net-SNMP 5.4.2, the default configuration |
| seems to build and run successfully. The main tweak needed to get |
| things working was to disable "embedded perl" (which is active by |
| default in 5.4 and above). |
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| The issue here is that enabling embedded perl will try to use the |
| same CFLAGS used for compiling perl, when compiling the Net-SNMP code |
| (which is probably reasonable). Unfortunately, the default perl binary |
| that comes with Mac OS/X 10.5 (at least) is a "universal binary", |
| so the CFLAGS that it uses include "-arch i386 -arch ppc". This |
| dual-architecture option confuses the configure script, and means |
| that it cannot detect the characteristics of the host system correctly. |
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| Dave |
| June 2008 |