I'm trying to install the perl module packaged with net-snmp ver. 5.3.1, the latest stable version. I downloaded from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/download.html, and the application itself installs OK, i.e. the commands

cd net-snmp-5.3.1
./configure --with-perl-modules --enable-shared
make
make test
make install
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run fine, with no errors. However, when I cd to the included perl directory (i.e. that comes with the download) and try to do

/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL
make 
make test
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I get the following errors:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-I../blib/lib" "-I../blib/arch" test.
+pl
1..64
Can't load '../blib/arch/auto/NetSNMP/default_store/default_store.so' 
+for module NetSNMP::default_store: libnetsnmp.so.10: cannot open shar
+ed object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i38
+6-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at test.pl line 71
Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 71.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 71.
not ok 1
make[1]: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/netdisco/net-snmp-5.3.1/perl/default
+_store'
make: *** [test] Error 2
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This is even though the default_store.so file is there:

[root@burvil default_store]# ls -l ../blib/arch/auto/NetSNMP/default_s
+tore/default_store.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 85559 Sep 14 13:54 ../blib/arch/auto/NetSNMP/d
+efault_store/default_store.so
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[root@burvil default_store]# pwd
/root/netdisco/net-snmp-5.3.1/perl/default_store
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as is the libnetsnmp.so.10 file:

[root@burvil perl]# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so.10
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 Sep 13 20:06 /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so.1
+0 -> libnetsnmp.so.10.0.1
[root@burvil perl]# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp.so.10.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1237224 Sep 13 20:06 /usr/local/lib/libnetsnmp
+.so.10.0.1
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and the Makefile that's created with perl Makefile.PL has the settings to look in that directory:

LD = gcc
LDDLFLAGS = -shared -L/usr/local/lib
LDFLAGS =  -L/usr/local/lib
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I tried installing anyway, ignoring the errors, and the same errors come up when I use it. Also, I need to this particular SNMP module (I know there are others, like SNMP_session), but the perl app I'm installing (netdisco) specifically requires this one. Also, I get the same message when installing a previous version, net-snmp 5.1.4. I'm running perl 5.8.5, gcc 3.4.5 (see below), and RHEL AS 4 Update 3.

[root@burvil perl]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.5/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --
+infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disa
+ble-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libun
+wind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)
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Solution: Well, I realized what was wrong. I had installed net-snmp from source on my RHEL AS 4 box, even though it was already installed from rpm. The version from rpm was older. I thought it wouldn't matter, since I specified different directories, but I guess not. I ended up installing netdisco on another system, where I hadn't installed from source, and thus not corrupted the libraries.