Re: Patch for build instructions
Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.devel |
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On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >>From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instructions. > > Mention a prerequisite that will trip people up under Ubuntu. > --- > INSTALL | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL > index 24f8d6c..aad9099 100644 > --- a/INSTALL > +++ b/INSTALL > @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ QUICK INSTRUCTIONS > (due to prompting done by the configure script, this is very rarely > necessary.) > > - 3) make > + 3) Run make. If the build fails with a complaint that it can't resolve > + -lperl, install libperl-dev and try again. > > 4) Run the next command as root: > 5) make install This should be elaborated further: another alternative is to pass --disable-embedded-perl to the configure script. Bart. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot