Re: net-snmp install on AIX 5.3

On 10 April 2012 15:26, Stephen Grecni <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm attempting to install net-snmp 5.7.1 on AIX 5.3 I used the following
> commands:
> ./configure --disable-shared --disable-embedded-perl --without-kmem-usage
> --with-default-snmp-version="2"
> I get error:
>                checking whether the Perl function system() invokes a POSIX
> shell... syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
>                Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
>               ./configure[6481]: : cannot execute
>               ./configure[6481]: "');': unknown test operator

Hmmmm....
What does the command

         perl -e 'system('"'"'echo $OSTYPE'"'"');'

report?



> The make install fails with the following error:
>
> install:  installed net-snmp-create-v3-user.1 in
> /usr/local/dist/usr/local/share/man/man1
> /bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `;' is not expected.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

This is a known problem, which has been fixed in the current
development code, and will be included in future releases.

The workaround is to delete (or comment out) the line
starting
     @for i in $(MAN3) ; ....

from the "maninstall" target - ideally in both 'Makefile.in' and 'Makefile'

Dave

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