Re: Net-SNMP 5.8.pre3 available

On 2018/05/04 05:16, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 05/03/18 13:48, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2018-04-27, Robert Story <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > We're closing in on a final release. The current plan is to have
> > > release candidate 1 next week.
> > 
> > Is it planned to address https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2831/
> > before release or are distro packagers going to need to patch the other
> > programs to cope?
> 
> Thanks for having drawn our attention to that bug report. How about fixing
> bug 2831 with the below patch?
> 
> Bart.
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] BUG: 2831: Move agent-internal global variables into a
> separate header file
> 
> Because commit 81b65f4d23a9 added declarations for several global variables
> to public header files, applications that declare global variables with the
> same names no longer build. Hence move the global variables that were added
> by that commit to public header files into a new header file.
> 
> Fixes: 81b65f4d23a9 ("Move declarations of global functions and variables
> from .c to .h")

Thanks Bart, that looks like a good approach to me.


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