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Re: Building OpenSSH




From: Igor Pechtchanski
Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote:

> Hi All...
>
> While tracking down an occasional hang in keychain, I tracked it down to
> ssh-add...so I wanted to build OpenSSH. More on this when I finish tracking it
> down. But along the way...
>
> I used the following command from the cygwin openssh readme file.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir)' \
> --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share' --mandir='$(datadir)/man' \
> --with-tcp-wrappers
>
> The configure complains that commands sbindir and datadir are not defined.
> Should I be doing things differently?


Those are supposed to be braces, not parentheses.  I.e., use "${sbindir}"
instead of "$(sbindir)".  I would also recommend using a font that makes
better distinction between "(" and "{".
That is what I suspected...so take a look at the openssh.README file...so it is a typo there.

> Also, would it be possible for the OpenSSH maintainer to create a package
> (pseudo package) that captures the dependencies required to build OpenSSH? It
> would make building it much easier.


Is this sentence from the end of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README:

	You must have installed the zlib, the openssl-devel and the
	minires-devel packages to be able to build OpenSSH!
Also TCP Wrappers and I don't recall if there was anything else (it is past my bedtime). It is not worth a lot of work, but it might not be a bad way to "document" the dependences.

not enough? Or do you mean stuff like "gcc", "ash", "make", etc?
No, not the tools.
Igor
Thanks,

...Karl



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