OpenSSH 2.5.0p1

William L. Jones jones at hpc.utexas.edu
Sun Feb 18 13:46:34 EST 2001


At 08:40 PM 2/17/01 -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
>[..]
> > > IMO: builddir != srcdir is the standard case. builddir == srcdir
> > > is just a special case which moreover isn't a too clean way to
> > > build stuff. I think it isn't' worth to tweak configure to drop
> > > some -I for just one special case.
> >
> > builddir == srcdir is a special case, true, but still.. I'd approximate
> > over 95% if not 99% of users _do_ build software when builddir == srcdir.
> > It's IMO a lot more important to get it right for the most commonly used
> > case.
> >
>
>I don't agree.. builddir == srcdir is more common now then builddir !=
>srcdir for end users.  However I will agree within a coperation or a
>multi-platform enviroment building outside the source dir is more common.
>
>The best choice is renaming login.[ch] and pty.[ch] is the best
>choice.  However, doing it portable only is asking for a headache for us
>that have to sync the trees.
>
>- Ben

I agree that renameing login.{ch} and pty.{ch} is the best  choice.  The
-I/usr/include  trick is just an attempt to work around the AIX problem
until that can happen.

Bill Jones





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