5.4 open issues

We try to collect significant open issues for the 5.4 release cycle here. Please add your contributions/comments and fix as much as you can!

Issue	Bug/patch	Comment	Assigned to
snmptrapd partial oid matching	Patch 1536773	introduce partial oid matching for traphandle, e.g. "traphandle someOID* /call/on/subtree/matching" (completely rewritten by Wes and now requires a -t flag). It's in pre1. Changed to "oid[.]*" for pre2.	hardaker
no perl/agent/Support/Makefile	-	With some perl versions "make perlmodules" will not create perl/agent/Support/Makefile from Makefile.PL, so the build will fail (e.g. on Solaris 8 with system-supplied Perl). Fixed in pre1.	hardaker/tanders
pre/rc version numbers	-	5.4.pre1 gets rewritten to 5.4.0.1 in net-snmp-config which breaks the perl version checks and the default build. See -coders. Fixed for pre2.	hardaker/tanders
Windows build broken	-	5.4.pre1 doesn't build on Windows (as reported by Alex) due the recent changes to the transport code (patch 1282566) . Fixed for pre2.	Alex_B
make perltest	-	Currently fails on perl/SNMP t/notify test (tests 7, 9, 10). It should pass perfectly in order to be able to use it for regression testing. Fixed for pre2.	tanders
python binding	-	Initial python binding (just client-side get/set/walk etc.). Added before pre2, including a --with-python-modules.	hardaker/jmarzot
smarter "enable embedded perl by default"	-	Only enable embedded perl if it will successfully compile later on. Quite smart in pre3, but some problems (minimum perl version?) still need to be detected.	hardaker/tanders
Solaris perl<->host issues (due to largefiles)	Bug 1486366	Solaris system-supplied Perl is compiled with largefile support. The very same options break the build of the host module, though. (Wes: This will not be fixed by 5.4.) At least detected (and embedded perl disabled) in pre3.	?
OpenBSD4 system header	-	See 9/26 and 9/27 irc logs; openbsd4 uses openbsd.h, and thus a lot of openbsd3 code that most likely works on openbsd4 is excluded. Some fixes are in pre3. Rework openbsd system headers and defines?	?
OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Solaris if-mib rewrites	-	the suggestion in the NEWS file, --with-mib-modules=if-mib, doesn't work. Need a way to have configure pass NETSNMP_INCLUDE_IFTABLE_REWRITES during module processing/compilation.	rstory
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex	-	Indexes have been re-ordered from previous versions. Have we justified this/notified users of this change?	dts12/bshaw
UCD-SNMP-MIB::systemStats	-	Reported to be broken on some systems (Solaris, some RHEL Linux machines). Breaks "make test" (CPU test on Solaris, snmpwalk test on Linux).	dts12?
disman/event crash	Bug 1556259	Reported crashes in mteTrigger.c	dts12?
64bit nlist	Bugs 148532, 1484814, 1388562	nlist fails on 64bit systems (AIX, IRIX, Tru64). We need 64bit capable auto_nlist replacement routines. Every system has its own variant and changes are needed all over the net-snmp code. :-(	tanders
ifTable transient interface handling	Bug 1238981, Patch 1513191	offer an (per-interface) config option how transient interfaces are handled in ifTable (same or different). A List FAQ.	rstory?
Suppress error messages on SIGHUP	?	Remove the likely harmless, but annoying error messages on SIGHUP. A List FAQ.	rstory?
missing IP scalars in snmpwalk	Bug 1554989	snmpwalk doesn't show IP scalars on all platforms!	rstory?
fix perl compiler warnings	-	There are a number of nasty compiler warnings for the perl modules that needs to be dealt with. List provided to hardaker.	hardaker/tanders
libnetsnmphelpers linking trouble	Bug 1565496	In contrast to 5.3.x and earlier, the new "as needed" linking scheme has introduced problems when linking in libnetsnmphelpers on a number of platforms (OSX, HP-UX, RH9, RHEL2.1). Some happen during "make install", some during "make".	?
OSX embedded perl broken	Bug 1377478	Embedded perl seems to fail silently (and for unknown reasons) on OSX.	?
OSX build fails	-	Compile errors on OSX in memory_darwin.c (plus the libnetsnmphelpers problems, see above)	dts12? rstory? OpenMacNews?