Got some info from Frederic Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxx> and what he says
makes sense to me but it confuses me at the same time.
The Debian packager tells me I got these things installed:
Package: libsnmp4.1
Source: ucd-snmp
Version: 4.1.1-2
Replaces: snmp (<= 3.6.2-3), libsnmp
Provides: libsnmp
Package: libsnmp4.1-dev
Source: ucd-snmp
Version: 4.1.1-2
Replaces: libsnmp-dev
Provides: libsnmp-dev
What I did was to REINSTALL the libsnmp4.1 and libsnmp4.1-dev packages (in
this order and for no real reason I'm aware of) and then reduild.
This time it worked fine (that is both building the package and running
the program).
Now, this leaves me a bit puzzled... I'll be sleepless tonight, unless
somebody comes out with THE ANSWER that will end all my pains ;-)
Thanks again guys, you're all great!
Cheers,
Cristian
--
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:23:13 +0200
From: Frederic Peters <fpeters@xxxxxxxx>
To: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cii@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: building ethereal-0.8.12
> Trying to build a deb-package from the latest released sources and get
> this error:
>
> packet-snmp.o: In function `proto_register_snmp':
> /usr/src/ethereal-0.8.12/packet-snmp.c:2017: undefined reference to
> `snmp_set_suffix_only'
> [...]
>
> What could be the problem?
I don't know since it shouldn't try to compile this if you don't have
libsnmp4.1-dev installed. So it should build fine in everycase.
But snmp_set_suffix_only changed from function to macro in libsnmp 4.1.1
and that may cause problems. FYI I built the debian package with
libsnmp 4.1.1 (4.1.2 is available). You might want to tell ethereal
developers about that one.
Regards,
Frederic