In case anyone else ever runs into this 'mystifying' problem in getting net-snmp to build in a cygwin environment -- I FOUND THE SOLUTION! ...and will be selling it on E-Bay.. :-) Just kidding!
The problem was that the directory I was building from on my Win2k box was in a path with s p a c e s in the path: "cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/dougm", and libtool could not build the filespecs appropriately (at least I *think* it was libtool). I figured it out by manually running failed command and adding -d to the libtool command. The output looked... well... wrong. Once I relocated the build environment to a 'safe' directory with no spaces in the path (/tmp) and redefined $HOME just to be safe, the build *worked*. So -- there you have it. Something for the release notes. It only took me a YEAR to figure this out. Man! /doug ----- Forwarded message from Doug McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:33:54 -0400 From: Doug McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin-based build on Win2k Professional net-snmp-config reports what appears to be a blank line. :-( $ ./net-snmp-config --configure-options $ Bummer. Thanks for the reply anyway. I'm giving up. /doug On or about Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Robert Story wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:44:39 -0400 Doug wrote: > DM> I'm trying to build 5.0.8 on Win2k Professional PC at work. > DM> > DM> Question 2: > DM> ./configure seems to go ok, but make ends with this error: > DM> > DM> make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and > DM> Settings/mcphersond/My > DM> Documents/Downloads/net-snmp-5.0.8/apps/snmpnetstat'/bin/sh ../libtool > DM> --mode=link gcc -o snmpget.exe snmpget.lo -L../snmplib -L../agent > DM> -L../agent/helpers ../snmplib/libnetsnmp.la-lm libtool: link: cannot find > DM> the library `' make[1]: *** [snmpget.exe] Error 1 > DM> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and > DM> Settings/mcphersond/My Documents/Downloads/net-snmp-5.0.8/apps' make: *** > DM> [subdirs] Error 1 > DM> > DM> Why is it looking for library `' ?!? Looks like something isn't > DM> defined correctly by configure ? > > I just unpacked 5.0.8 on a fresh cygwin install, and it build with no problems. > > What does 'net-snmp-config --configure-options' report? > > -- > Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie, NET-POLICY Flunkie > <irc://irc.openprojects.net/#net-snmp> <http://www.net-snmp.org/> > <irc://irc.openprojects.net/#net-policy> <http://net-policy.sourceforge.net/> > > You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. -- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Please sponsor me on the 2004 Pan Mass Challenge and help fund cancer research! You can make secure donations here: http://www.pmc.org/egifts/makeadonation.asp?EgiftID=DM0192 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users