I must assume that usually my work comes home with me.
Of course I know this isn’t a thing to do often (or is it never?), and that good schedule estimation foresees delays to compensate… for delays! But still, I enjoy spending a late night remotely debugging someone else’s code, or compiling a library from scratch.
Tonight is one of those nights, much because the deadline is so close I already sense the smell of delivery in the air! So, here am I, compiling, debugging, until one falls asleep…
This seems to be the 10th time I need to install net-snmp from the downloaded tarball… and it seems that I had all the problems I had the previous 9 times before!
Some tips to avoid problems the next time:
- read the ./configure –help carefully, and please deactivate perl if not needed by using –disable-embedded-perl
- use more net-snmp-config (and use –help for reference - read carefully)
- for example, to list the libraries needed to link a subagent use net-snmp-config –agent-libs
…more on snmp development coming soon (if it doesn’t it’s because all went well!)
I’m trying to use a FF (version 2, yes, I’m still using version 2 of the best web browser ever!) addon called ScribeFire, which enables me to write this post from FF without ever accessing the actual blog.
