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Incident report
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Trivial
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6.4.13rc1, 7.0.0beta2
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It's stated in Zabbix documentation that Zabbix requires Net-SNMP version 5.3.0 or higher:
- https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.4/en/manual/installation/requirements
- https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/en/manual/installation/requirements
In reality Zabbix 6.0 can still be built with Net-SNMP 5.3, but Zabbix 6.4 and Zabbix pre-7.0 fail to build with such old version of Net-SNMP because it uses functionality from newer Net-SNMP versions. Zabbix 6.4 requires at least Net-SNMP 5.4 while Zabbix pre-7.0 requires at least Net-SNMP 5.8.
Those are rather old versions of Net-SNMP. It looks like v5.4 was released in Nov 2006, v5.4.4 (the most recent v5.4.x) in June 2011, v5.8 in July 2018.
Both documentation and configure.ac should be updated.