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. (we don't know the minimum perl version... if we know it, we can test for it. It should be quite old though (I believe it works under 5.004)	hardaker/tanders
Solaris 5.9 build broken	Bug 1569150	-Usolaris2 -Dsolaris2=solaris2 doesn't seem to work properly. Fixed for pre4.	dts12
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). Solaris and Linux parts fixed for pre4.	dts12
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
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 (OSX)	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. Some happen during "make install DESTDIR=..." (SF OpenBSD 3.8, HP-UX, RH7.1, RH9, RHEL2.1, FC2), some during "make" (OSX).	?
OSX embedded perl broken	Bug 1377478	Embedded perl seems to fail silently (and for unknown reasons) on OSX.	?
Solaris 2.6/7 configure sed failures	-	On Solaris 2.6 and 7 configure reproducibly fails with "Output too long" and "sed: garbled command" errors from sed during configure's AC_OUTPUT for mib_module_list_h. This list is extremely long (>6500 chars on my Linux build) causing trouble on many systems :-(. Can this be split up? Otherwise, we at least need a new FAQ item for the sed/grep issues in configure.	?
notifications over TCP broken	Bug 1571945	The recent patch for the UDP/IPv4 response IP address broke other transports. See the bug report for a decent analysis.	?