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Re: Building OpenSSH


On Mar  3 00:04, Karl M wrote:
> >> ./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.

I'll change the README to use braces and add the tcp_wrappers dependency.

Corinna

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