[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0012290]: Can not choose res_snmp in "make menuconfig" because dependency (net-snmp package) not recognized.

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12290 
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Reported By:                Joe_
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   12290
Category:                   Resources/res_snmp
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0-beta5 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): 1.6.0 
SVN Revision (number only!): 89511 
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             03-24-2008 15:12 CDT
Last Modified:              03-26-2008 19:32 CDT
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Summary:                    Can not choose res_snmp in "make menuconfig" because
dependency (net-snmp package) not recognized.
Description: 
The res_snmp module can not be chosen in "make menuconfig" apparently
because the net-snmp installation isn't recognized.  It says in "make
menuconfig" that it depends on "netsnmp".  Could this be because of
confusion about the naming of the net-snmp/netsnmp package, or are these
two different pieces of software.  Even within the package itself both
names seem to be used

I am running on a Trixbox 2.6 installation which uses CentOS 5.1 
"yum list net-snmp*"  shows that I have net-snmp, net-snmp-devel,
net-snmp-libs and net-snmp-utils all installed.  It could perhaps be
possible that the Trixbox developers did something wrong/nonstandard in
creating the net-snmp package.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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child of            0012067 Configure Script does not properly test...
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 Joe_ - 03-26-08 19:32  
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Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't normally think to look beyond the main
installation directory for information relating to successfully selecting
and compiling a module.  I guess it comes down to how many of people that
will want to try an install this module do you think will go crying for
help instead of looking for an answer in the doc directory or figuring out
that they need to try to install the related -devel packages of all of the
packages that are dependencies or the one package that you explicitly list
as a dependency for a module.  If you estimate the number to be very small,
then by all means ignore them, do nothing and close the issue.  Otherwise
it may be justifiable to give them a bit more help.  It's the developers'
decision so I'll say no more whichever way it goes. 

Issue History 
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03-26-08 19:32  Joe_           Note Added: 0084634                          
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