Re: Patch for build instructions

Bill Fenner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <CAF4SogYvT7tv=aHY=bhCUKY5vbnDjAOGcF+P7c0u1ht=FKsDtQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
>>   -  3) make
>>>
>> +  3) Run make.  If the build fails with a complaint that it can't resolve
>> +     -lperl, install libperl-dev and try again.
>>
> This should be elaborated further: another alternative is to pass
> --disable-embedded-perl to the configure script.


Not to mention that "install libperl-dev" means nothing on Solaris, or
FreeBSD, or MacOS, or other supported systems.

The best solution here would be to make configure recognize that it doesn't
have the prerequisites available.

  Bill

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