2.9p1 patches

[Kevin Steves]

thanks, is it possible to separate each change into an individual patch?

On Sun, 20 May 2001 openssh-unix-dev at thewrittenword.com wrote:
:1. Add support for files >2GB via Paul Eggert's AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
:   macro. This macro is now part of autoconf 2.50. Because of this,
:   "config.h" needs to be included before system headers to get
:   the appropriate defines for LFS support.
:     openbsd-compat/sigact.c
:     configure.in
:     acinclude.m4
:2. AIX defines TILDE in <sys/ioctl.h>. Rename to TILDE_CHAR. Feel
:   free to pick a better name.
:     openbsd-compat/glob.c

is ioctl.h needed in glob.c?  i don't think so.  what about just
#undef'ing TILDE after includes.h or leave it and live with a redefinition
warning?  we try to minimize the diff with the openbsd tree.

:3. You should *not* place custom macros in aclocal.m4. They should
:   be in acinclude.m4 and then you should use aclocal to generate
:   aclocal.m4 from acinclude.m4.
:     acinclude.m4
:4. A better --with-pcre and --with-zlib configure test.
:     configure.in
:
:Some comments regarding your code in configure.in:
:  1. Hardcoding the need for -lsocket and -lnsl via
:     $no_libsocket and $no_libnslis gross. Doing this means you
:     don't know how to write a proper autoconf test to determine
:     if these two libraries are needed. The solution is not to
:     hack in the value with a case statement but to figure out
:     the proper autoconf way of solving the problem, independent
:     of the hardcoding the solution for every platform. A solution
:     proposed below is:
:       AC_CHECK_FUNC(yp_match, , AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, yp_match))
:       AC_CHECK_FUNC(setsockopt, , AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, setsockopt))
:     We could probably also add:
:       AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostent, , AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, gethostent))
:  2. Checks such as the following are wrong:
:       AC_CHECK_LIB(gen, getspnam, LIBS="$LIBS -lgen")
:     Don't check if the function exists in the library. Check
:     first if the function exists *without* the library and then
:     with the library if need be (and, FYI, AC_CHECK_LIB(lib,func)
:     will automatically add "-l[lib]" to $LIBS):
:       AC_CHECK_FUNC(getspnam, , AC_CHECK_LIB(gen, getspnam))

good suggestions, can you provide patches for them?

:If our autoconf checks aren't correct, let's find out why and fix it.
:I'd like to move in a direction where there are *no* hardcoded case
:statements per platform in configure.in.
:
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:albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)