openssh 3.1p1 & autoconf 2.53

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Sascha Silbe wrote:

> If I leave the openssh sources untouched, it works fine with paths
> containing a comma (,). But after just running autoconf (without touching
> anything else), configure chokes on these paths:

[snip]

> find anything in configure.ac that could cause it, but all cases with similar
> problems that I could find in the list archives for autoconf were problems in
> the packages using autoconf, not in autoconf itself, so I thought I'd try it
> on this list first.

This looks like a problem with autoconf, you should report it as a bug to
them.

> Any ideas how to fix this? I need to patch configure.ac to link openssh
> statically (urgently needed because the openssl team keeps breaking binary
> compatibility even on patch level releases).

TO statically link in OpenSSL, I just do a:

perl -pi -e "s|-lcrypto|/usr/lib/libcrypto.a|g" Makefile

after running configure.

-d