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@@ -6,10 +6,24 @@ this, one needs to have Net-SNMP development headers and libraries on
the build system, including any libraries Net-SNMP depends on.
Note that on some (many?) Linux-distributions the dependency list in
-the net-snmp-devel list is not complete, and additional RPMs will need
-to be installed. This is typically seen as attempts to build res_snmp
-as net-snmp-devel is available, but then fails to find certain
-libraries. The packages may include the following:
+the net-snmp-devel list is not complete, and additional packages will
+need to be installed. This is usually seen as configure failing to
+detect net-snmp-devel as the configure script does a sanity check of
+the net-snmp build environment, based on the output of
+'net-snmp-config --agent-libs'.
+
+To see what your distribution requires, run 'net-snmp-config --agent-libs'.
+
+You will receive a response similar to the following:
+-L/usr/lib -lnetsnmpmibs -lnetsnmpagent -lnetsnmphelpers -lnetsnmp -ldl
+-lrpm -lrpmio -lpopt -lz -lcrypto -lm -lsensors -L/usr/lib/lib -lwrap
+-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE
+-L/usr/local/lib
+/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
+-L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lresolv -lnsl
+-ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
+
+The packages required may include the following:
* bzip2-devel
* lm_sensors-devel
* newt-devel