Problem building net-snmp 5.3.1 rc2 on RHEL4 64bit

[mshields at namemedia.com (Matt Shields)]

I've had problems getting 64 bit counters working with RedHat's net-snmp
and have been successful with 5.3.1 on all my other servers.  I've
compiled this no problem on those, but they're all 32 bit.  Now we're
starting to get 64bit servers in, so one way or another it would be nice
to get this working with 5.3.1.  Also, if we don't use 64 bit counters,
we rollover about every minute or so for our bandwidth statistics.

I did try applying one of the patches that refers to the libtool, but
that didn't work.


Matthew Shields
Sr Systems Administrator
NameMedia, Inc.
(P) 781-839-2828
mshields at namemedia.com
http://www.namemedia.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Hill [mailto:ed at eh3.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Matt Shields
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Problem building net-snmp 5.3.1 rc2 on RHEL4 64bit

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:19 -0400, Matt Shields wrote:
> I'm having a terrible time trying to compile net-snmp-5.3.1.rc2 on 
> RHEL4
> 64 bit.  Below is the last couple lines of the make.  Can anyone shed 
> light on this?
> 
> I do know that /usr/lib/libpopt.so and /usr/lib64/libpopt.so do exist.
> 
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --mode=compile gcc -I../include -I. -I../agent
> -I../agent/mibgroup -I../snmplib   -g -O2 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm
-c
> -o snmpd.lo snmpd.c
> rm -f .libs/snmpd.lo
> gcc -I../include -I. -I../agent -I../agent/mibgroup -I../snmplib -g 
> -O2 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm -c snmpd.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
> .libs/snmpd.lo gcc -I../include -I. -I../agent -I../agent/mibgroup 
> -I../snmplib -g -O2 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm -c snmpd.c -o snmpd.o 
> >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/snmpd.lo snmpd.lo /bin/sh ../libtool  
> --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm
> -o snmpd snmpd.lo    libnetsnmpmibs.la libnetsnmpagent.la
> helpers/libnetsnmphelpers.la  ../snmplib/libnetsnmp.la -ldl -lrpm 
> -lrpmio -lpopt  -lz -lcrypto -lm gcc -g -O2 -Dlinux -I/usr/include/rpm

> -o .libs/snmpd snmpd.o ./.libs/libnetsnmpmibs.so 
> ./.libs/libnetsnmpagent.so helpers/.libs/libnetsnmphelpers.so 
> ../snmplib/.libs/libnetsnmp.so -ldl -lrpm -lrpmio /usr/lib/libpopt.so 
> -lz -lcrypto -lm  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> /usr/lib/libpopt.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [snmpd] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/install/net-snmp-5.3.1.rc2/agent'
> make: *** [subdirs] Error 1
> 
> Matthew Shields
> Sr Systems Administrator
> NameMedia, Inc.
> (P) 781-839-2828
> mshields at namemedia.com
> http://www.namemedia.com

Hi Matt,

Yes, you're likely encountering a multilib issue.  But the real question
you should be asking yourself is: why compile net-snmp from source?

If you really do need to build from source (say, for a newer version)
then I suggest that you grab one of the SRPMs and rebuild using it as a
starting point since there are a handful of patches that Red Hat has
applied in order to straighten out things such as the multilib/libtool
issue.

You can see for yourself with the Centos SRPMs:

  wget
http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/4.3/os/SRPMS/net-snmp-5.1.2-11.EL4.6.src
.rpm
  rpm2cpio net-snmp-5.1.2-11.EL4.6.src.rpm | cpio -ivd
  more more net-snmp.spec

Ed

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