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 >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
