Solaris 2.6 problem

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Rachit Siamwalla wrote:
> 
> > perhaps ./configure should pick that up automatically for SunOS. So many
> > people have asked that question and probably countless more (including
> > me) have had the problem and searched the archives for a solution (or
> > did the ugly ln -s solution).
> > 
> > I don't know too much about configure or i would submit a patch myself.
> > 
> 
> Umm... No. <weak smile>
> 
> Configure should however should key off of --prefix=  and add in
> ${PREFIX}/bin to the compiled in path.  That I can see and agree, but
> just to blinding assume 'everyone on XX platform installs this application
> in /usr/local/bin' is flawed.  Because I know on my solaris box I install
> OpenSSH in /opt/ssh because I personally have a massive dislike for
> /usr/local/.  After installing 40 added packages to make my users happy I
> end up with a mess.
> 
> I'd have to look into what this would take.  I think the idea may have
> come out before, but no action was taken on it. 

It has. I provided a patch a while ago for openssh-2.2.0p1 that was
rejected. If you would like to revisit this I'll update my patch
for the CVS version.

> 
> - Ben
> 
> 

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