OpenSSH compilation in AIX

[Darren Tucker]

[Note: CC to openssh-unix-dev added]

"Ph. Marek" wrote:
> I found you mail
>         http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=104970105603800&w=2
> where you claim that you've compiled openssh in AIX.

That is correct, AIX 4.2.1, 4.3.3 and 5.1.

> Not my situation is as follows:
>         openssh-3.6.1p1
>         AIX 4.2
>         gcc
>         /usr/bin/ld (AIX-binary)
> 
> and upon linking of ssh I get "undefined symbol: .__inet_ntoa" and the same
> with inet_aton, followed by "use -bloadmap".
> If I use -bloadmap I get "cannot find or open libgcc.a" - which is available,
> and I even tried to give its path via -L to the linker.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?

inet_ntoa is part of libc.a (on AIX 4.2.1 anyway).  The man page
contains some conflicting information, though:

"All applications containing the inet_ntoa subroutine must be compiled
with _BSD set to a specific value. Acceptable values are 43 and 44.
In addition, all socket applications must include the BSD libbsd.a
library."

I would suggest:
a) Adding -lbsd to CFLAGS
b) Installing all of the bos.adt filesets from your distribution media.

After each you must run "make distclean" re-run "./configure".

If those two things don't work please send me the config.h and
config.log files generated by running "configure" and the output of
"oslevel".

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