Thanks for the analysis Gregor, It explains why when I built it by hand it seemed to work ok. There was a patch to fix parallel build where something needed to depend on something else. I suspect that there needs to be another (or more) of these dependencies. Odd how if it doesn't find the library it just doesn't abort instead of merrily making a bad module, but there you go.
Probably also explains why the reproducible build check always fails. It gives me a place to look, thanks! - Craig On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 06:07, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:34:41 +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > > > libsnmp-perl is broken. > > Ouch, I don't use the module (or Perl much for that matter) but that's > very > > broken. No idea what's going on but it worries me that > > netsnmp_ds_get_boolean is the first function in that module which means a > > coincidence or all functions are not available. > > Some notes: > > % apt-cache --no-all-versions show libsnmp-perl | grep Depends > Depends: perl (>= 5.30.0-6), perlapi-5.30.0, libc6 (>= 2.15) > > So the perl package doesn't depend on any snmp libraries. The > previous version had > Depends: perl (>= 5.30.0-5), perlapi-5.30.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), > libsnmp30 (>= 5.7.3+dfsg) > > Digging around in the git repo shows that the perl build system has > been changed. (No idea if this is related.) > > Looking at the (local) build log we see: > > … well different things at each build, but once I saw the perl > modules built first in dh_auto_build with warnings about missing C > libraries … > > Upstream ChangeLog says: > > The Perl module build problems were caused by a concurrent build > (make -j<n>) and not by a problem in any of the Makefile.PL files. > > When I try > > %: > dh $@ --no-parallel > > I end up with > > Depends: perl (>= 5.30.0-6), perlapi-5.30.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), > libsnmp35 (>= 5.8+dfsg) > > and the problem is gone: > > % perl -MSNMP -e 1 > % > > So it looks like the "whole" problem is that net-snmp is not > parallel-build safe … > > Not sure if --no-parallel is an acceptable solution but at least the > area of the problem is a bit clearer now. (Fixing the many > Makefile.*s might be cleaner but that's too much for me now.) > > > Cheers, > gregor > > > -- > .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer > https://www.debian.org > : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 > AA06 > `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation > Europe > `- >
