Possible bug in openssh configuration file

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2001-May-31 11:12:53 +0200 dixit Alain Aubord:

: Dear Sirs,
:        I was trying to compile openssh for Solaris 2.8 in 64bits mode.
: For that, I have defined the variable CFLAGS with the following value
: "-fast -I/isdc/include -L/isdc/lib -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9" before
: running the configure command.

Some of those options shouldn't be in CFLAGS; they should be in LDFLAGS.
I don't know which compiler you're using (doesn't look like gcc), but
probably you mean:

  CFLAGS="-fast -I/isdc/include -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9" \
  LDFLAGS="-fast -L/isdc/lib -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9" \
  ./configure --prefix=...

: All goes correctly except that the command for doing the link of
: executable is not called with the content of variable "CFLAGS" (as you
: can see in the following extract of compile log). This is annoying since
: the linking can not be done (without correct parameter, 32bits linking
: is done). The solution I have used is to do the link manually with the
: content of the variable CFLAGS and that has worked. But I have spent
: some time to find that.

You need to use LDFLAGS for link-time options; CFLAGS is for
compile-time options (and CPPFLAGS is often used for preprocessor-time
options, such as -I or -D).

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