Call for testing for coming 2.9 release.

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> If we can get people to test their platforms against the last snapshot/cvs
> tree I'd be greatful. (http://www.openssh.com/portable.html)

The snapshot hasn't been updated since the May 19th.  The CVS version
has some changes from the 20th, but nothing more recent.  Is there
anything newer that we're supposed to be testing?  The version.h file
says that it is "OpenSSH_2.5.4p1", and it was last changed on the 5th
of April.  (This all refers to the bass.directhit.com site that is
referenced on the portable.html web page.)

One simple change that is needed is to fix the check for perl5 in
configure.  The check fails if "perl5" is not found because it does
not check for just "perl" (since it's calling the wrong macro).
Here's a patch:

Index: configure.in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PATH_PROG(AR, ar)
-AC_PATH_PROG(PERL, perl5 perl)
+AC_PATH_PROGS(PERL, perl5 perl)
 AC_SUBST(PERL)
 AC_PATH_PROG(ENT, ent)
 AC_SUBST(ENT)

Once this is fixed, the man pages got properly generated in "man"
format for Solaris 2.6 (x86).

I noticed that the changes that are needed to get ssh to work on
Solaris using "UseLogin true" are not present in the CVS version.
I've ported them to the version I just grabbed from CVS -- shall I
send an updated diff?

..wayne..