On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:08:08PM +0530, Ganesh Hiregoudar wrote: > Recently we have made a changes in Solaris w.r.t library dependency in > net-snmp in order to compile it according to our compilation standards. > We haven't put those changes back into community. Now we are planning to > get the latest net-snmp(5.3.0.1) source in solaris (current version in > solaris is net-snmp 5.0.9) and sync-up with community > from now on. We are already working with our internal open source team > in getting this done in solaris. > Will it be any problem in putting the makefile changes which we have > made in solaris back to community ? > Please let us know. > Keith, Pradhap > Please add anything you would like to mention here.
I believe this discussion centers around generation of self-contained libraries. There are two pieces to this: making autotools know about the dependencies, and passing the right option to the linker (such as -zdefs on Solaris). Some platforms or build environments don't support this, so the right thing is to make sure autotools do the right thing. On Solaris, at least, they don't. That's not a Net-SNMP issue, other than updating to the latest tools to pick up the needed fixes. But communicating the inter-library dependencies to autotools for Net-SNMP so that they *can* do the right thing is a needed change, and that's what I'd like to see us contribute. We should also contribute our new SMF manifest and methods, if that's of interest to anyone; if initscripts for other platforms are accepted, these should be as well. Another useful contribution would be the ability to build for both 32- and 64-bit platforms at the same time (useful for administrators placing the binaries in a common location as well as for distributions like ours), but our solution to this isn't any good right now anyway. It would also be nice if we contributed a way to generate lint libraries for Net-SNMP on platforms that have lint, but I suspect that's a fairly ambitious project we haven't even done yet ourselves. If anyone would like to work with us on either of these last two, let me know. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
