compiling openssh-2.1.1p4 on SPARC Solaris 8

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Eugene Efremov wrote:

> I'm trying to compile openssh-2.1.1p4 on a Sparc machine running Solaris
> 8.  I've got all sorts of patches installed.  The compiler is gcc
> 2.95.2.  I was originally trying to get the ssh from www.ssh.com, not
> the OpenSSH, to work, but that's another story in and of itself, so I'm
> trying this opensource version in hopes of better success.

Are you using a gcc that you built yourself or the one from Sun Freeware?

> I'm not exactly sure what a 'cross compiler' is, as opposed to not a
> cross compiler, but it seems to me that the problem has something to do
> with that.
 
A cross compiler is a compiler which produces object code for a 
platform different to the one it runs on.

-d

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