Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Install failure at configure stage

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:24:31AM +0800, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> > > > checking for ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp-config.h... yes
> > > > checking whether UCD SNMP includes sprint_realloc_objid... no
> > > > configure: error: UCD SNMP requires -lcrypto but --with-ssl not specified
> > > > [jbreher@martor wireshark-0.99.3a]$
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > What in the last line of configure containing the error: message
> > > is hard to understand?
> > Couldn't 'configure' not bother trying to pick up either of the SNMPs if 
> > --with-ssl isn't specified, instead of bailing like this?  This question 
> > comes up a decent amount...
>
> well, the problem is that by default we do not enable --with-ssl because
> of license incompatibilities beween the GPLv2 and the openssl license.

I was sort of thinking the opposite: since SNMP needs SSL, default SNMP 
to off (even if we find it).  Or at least default it to off if SSL isn't 
enabled.

> It's ok to distribute the source to build something like that yourself
> but at least on some platforms it would be a breach of the GPL license.
> It would be best if ucd/net snmp would build with gnutls instead of
> openssl, but that's not how the real world is. I will check in a patch
> later today to make the message easier to understand - that's all that
> can be done about it.

Hopefully that'll help too/instead/also.