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Bug 70199

Summary:	net-snmp links to libelf
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	net-snmp	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	b-nordquist, rvokal
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Bug Blocks:	67218, 79579

Description Owen Taylor 2002-07-31 00:00:44 UTC

net-snmp checks for libelf in its configure script and links to it.

The apparent reason for this is that it wants to to use libelf
to poke around in /dev/kmem on some non-Linux systems.

Comment 1 Brent Nordquist 2002-12-07 00:29:46 UTC

Release -6 of the RPM has a patch from Florian that says it prevents the build
from trying to use -lelf (it replaces it with -llelf, which I guess is supposed
to make -lelf not found during configure).  However, during the build, it still
links with -lelf in the last step, which will fail if libelf-devel is not
installed (see bug 76086).  I think either 76086 needs to be implemented (so
libelf-devel is properly required during build), or this one should be
implemented (so libelf is truly not needed).

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2002-12-17 11:39:27 UTC

Fixed in net-snmp-5.0.6-9 rawhide build.