Joerg Mayer wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:24:31AM +0800, Jeff Morriss wrote:
checking for ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp-config.h... yes
checking whether UCD SNMP includes sprint_realloc_objid... no
configure: error: UCD SNMP requires -lcrypto but --with-ssl not specified
[jbreher@martor wireshark-0.99.3a]$
...
What in the last line of configure containing the error: message
is hard to understand?
Couldn't 'configure' not bother trying to pick up either of the SNMPs if
--with-ssl isn't specified, instead of bailing like this? This question
comes up a decent amount...
well, the problem is that by default we do not enable --with-ssl because
of license incompatibilities beween the GPLv2 and the openssl license.
I was sort of thinking the opposite: since SNMP needs SSL, default SNMP
to off (even if we find it). Or at least default it to off if SSL isn't
enabled.
It's ok to distribute the source to build something like that yourself
but at least on some platforms it would be a breach of the GPL license.
It would be best if ucd/net snmp would build with gnutls instead of
openssl, but that's not how the real world is. I will check in a patch
later today to make the message easier to understand - that's all that
can be done about it.
Hopefully that'll help too/instead/also.