[Bug 3795] ./configure: line 6197: syntax error near unexpected token `-pipe'

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3795

--- Comment #6 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
(In reply to dvx5j2ljdj2 from comment #4)
> (In reply to Darren Tucker from comment #2)
> > How and where did you get the original one that didn't work?  I'd
> > like to make sure we don't have a corrupt distribution somewhere...
> 
> I used "git clone https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable.git" 

That's the master branch, which does not have a pre-built configure
file.

> Followed the instruction below:
> 
> cd openssh-portable
> autoreconf

This is the point where you generated "configure" locally.  What
version of Autoconf did you use?  Is it possible the process was
interrupted or ran out of disk space?

(In reply to dvx5j2ljdj2 from comment #5)
> (In reply to Damien Miller from comment #3)
> > Also, we don't release distribution tarballs on github. Please use
> > one of the mirrors at https://www.openssh.com/portable.html - these
> > releases come with signatures
> 
> So you would not recommend using git clone from
> https://github.com/openssh ?
> 
> Instead download from https://www.openssh.com/portable.html and go
> from there?

Downloading a portable tarball from there gets you a signed tarball
containing the autoconf files such as configure, which requires less
trust (ie doesn't trust github) and requires less prep steps which may
go wrong.

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