contrib/redhat/openssh.spec question

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Rachit Siamwalla wrote:
> 1. Why is openssl a prereq? openssh statically links to openssl during
> build by default (rightfully so, you don't want your security library a
> shared object if possible)

No, openssl is linked dynamically:

$ ldd /usr/bin/ssh | grep crypto
	libcrypto.so.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 (0x4004d000)

> 2. I don't understand the following line in the spec file during the
> install step (it makes it not build for me):
>
> %{makeinstall} \
> 	sysconfdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/ssh \
> 	libexecdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libexecdir}/openssh \
> 	DESTDIR=/  # Hack to disable key generation
>
> The problem here is that make install will then put everything in the
> root directory (/usr/bin, etc.) instead of
> /usr/src/redhat/INSTALL/usr/bin, etc. (depends on RPM_ROOT) and thus in
> later stages of the RPM build, it won't find those files. Shouldn't DEST
> be $RPM_BUILD_ROOT and the others blank?
>
> One thing that might have affected stuff was i changed in the spec from
> %{makeinstall} to "make install". With rpm 3.0.3, i guess doesn't have
> that defined by default (i doubt this affects anything though).

Upgrade to RPM 3.0.5.  Do you still see the problem?

%{makeinstall} is crucial.  It's entirely different from make install;
several install directory options are passed, for example.

If you replace it with something like:

%makeinstall \
   make \\\
        prefix=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_prefix} \\\
        exec_prefix=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_exec_prefix} \\\
        bindir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_bindir} \\\
        sbindir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_sbindir} \\\
        sysconfdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_sysconfdir} \\\
 	datadir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_datadir} \\\
    	includedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_includedir} \\\
	libdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_libdir} \\\
        libexecdir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_libexecdir} \\\
        localstatedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_localstatedir} \\\
 	sharedstatedir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_sharedstatedir} \\\
        mandir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_mandir} \\\
        infodir=%{?buildroot:%{buildroot}}%{_infodir} \\\
   install

you get ~similar behaviour.

> 3. Why is openssl-devel a BuildPreReq?

Because openssl headers are required to build OpenSSH.

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Pekka Savola                  "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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