[CentOS] snmp on centos 3.x x86_64

Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell enlightened us:
>> I'm trying to use opennms to collect data from some CentOS3.x x86_64
>> boxes but I am getting an  error  "Integer too large: cannot decode"
>> that  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1316
>> says is a bug in net-snmp  that was fixed in a later version.   However,
>> when I try to build the 5.4.1 src.rpm from sourceforge I get
>> "/usr/lib/libpopt.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
>> although it builds OK on a 32 bit system.  Has anyone worked around this 
>> problem?  Or is it really a bug in opennms?
>>
> 
> In a time long ago and a land far far away, I tried building a 64-bit
> package with a 32-bit popt installed on it (I think it was galeon, but I
> could be wrong). As long as popt.i386 was installed, the build failed with
> the same error. Removing it (leaving only popt.x86_64) allowed the build to
> complete. 
> 
> If you're going to build 64-bit packages, you'll want a system with as few
> i386 packages as possible. I recall an e-mail earlier this month from Johnny
> that listed only 3.

Thanks - I had to use --nodeps' to get rid of popt.i386 but after that 
the 5.4.1 rpm rebuild worked, and it is working now with opennms.

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  Les Mikesell
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