Private Snapshot (Re: Call for testing for coming 2.9 release.)

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

Since there seems to be an issue with the CVS/Snapshot server.  I'm making
a private snapshot.

http://www.eviladmin.org/~mouring/openssh/openssh-20010424bal.tar.gz

Just be kind.. It is my link to the outside world. =)

- Ben

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wayne Davison wrote:

> 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..
>
>