PATH problem in Irix.

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Andrew Daviel wrote:

>
> I recently compiled openssh 3.4p1 for SGI Irix, and found the same problem
> I'd had with 2.5.
>
> Viz. that Irix /usr/include/paths.h defines _PATH_USERPATH, not USER_PATH,
> so that defines.h doesn't find it and we get the default, which is missing
> /usr/bsd (which on Irix has things like head, more, lpr) and /usr/bin/X11.
> This annoys the users, who want X11 to work.
>
This may be a better solution. Please test.
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---------------< cut >----------------
--- configure.ac.old	Sun Jul  7 13:43:36 2002
+++ configure.ac	Mon Jul  8 08:42:26 2002
@@ -2002,7 +2002,11 @@
 # include <paths.h>
 #endif
 #ifndef _PATH_STDPATH
-# define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
+# ifdef _PATH_USERPATH	/* Irix */
+#  define _PATH_STDPATH _PATH_USERPATH
+# else
+#  define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
+# endif
 #endif
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
---------------< end cut >----------------
>
> I added a test to defines.h, as follows:
>
> --- openssh-3.4p1/defines.h     Mon Jun 24 09:26:49 2002
> +++ defines.h   Sun Jul  7 00:33:08 2002
> @@ -296,6 +296,14 @@
>  # define _PATH_STDPATH USER_PATH
>  #endif
>
> +#ifdef _PATH_USERPATH
> +# ifdef _PATH_STDPATH
> +#  undef _PATH_STDPATH
> +# endif
> +# define _PATH_STDPATH _PATH_USERPATH
> +#endif
> +
> +
>  #ifndef _PATH_STDPATH
>  # define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
>  #endif
>
>
> There's also a _PATH_ROOTPATH  defined for root defaults, but I didn't try
> to implement that for root login.
>
>

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