installation problems v 5.6.1

[John Tackman]

Dear Alf,

> please, I'm trying to install the newest version of ssh, but I fail
> every time (see the output below) :
> the output of the configure complained, that there's no openssl, but I
> installed openssl before:

> configure: WARNING: stddef.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: stddef.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: stddef.h: proceeding with the 

> checking whether snprintf correctly terminates long strings... no
> configure: WARNING: ****** Your snprintf() function is 
> broken, complain
> to your vendor

> configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto (see
> config.log for details) ***

Ok, you have a couple of possibilities here.

OpenSSH seems to be a bit picky about how the binutils package works, I recently ran into a problem where:

a) OpenSSH 3.4p1 and 3.5p1 would neither accept OpenSSL0.9.7a but happily accepted 0.9.6i
b) OpenSSH accepted no version of OpenSSL since it was compiled with a broken binutils package

So, If you are installing from binary rpm packages, you might want to try the latest OpenSSH and OpenSSL and see if that works, if not. Then try latest OpenSSH and OpenSSL source packages but compile them AFTER you have made sure your binutils (ld,ar,as etc) are up to date as well as gcc (i got it working with binutils-030327 and gcc-3.2.2, then compiled OpenSSL 0.9.7a and then OpenSSH 3.5p1)

My system was a Solaris8 running on sparc the config.log that's mentioned in the OpenSSL -message was warning about ELF being faulty, this led me onto the binutils package.

-- 
John


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