OpenSSH on SunOS 4

[Jim Mintha]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:06:38PM -0600, Lacoss-Arnold, Jason wrote:
> 
>    I'm trying to update an ssh 1.2.27 to OpenSSH 3.0.2p1 and am running
>    into a problem.
>    I've successfully built zlib 1.1.4, OpenSSL 0.9.6c, and tcp_wrappers ,
>    but when I attempt to run configure, I get the error about the missing
>    posix regex.  So I attempted to download and use pcre (the Perl hack
>    to expose perl regex to posix.  But I can't build that since it calls
>    strtoul() (string to unsigned long?) which doesn't exist on SunOS.
>    Does anyone have a patch/workaround to avoid this?  And no, I can't
>    build glibc to snag its strtoul() since it doesn't have a SunOS port
>    either.

It was a few months ago that I build it, but it seems that it only
uses strtoul in the file pcretest.c (which is only for testing) so I
just changed it to strtol and it build fine.  (and works with openssh)

Jim

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