(4.1p1) Building failure with libedit on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Tue Aug 9 19:56:13 EST 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:43:09AM +0900, Norihiko Murase wrote:
> I've noticed that building 4.1p1 fails on FreeBSD 4.x if the
> libedit support is enabled by the "--with-libedit" configure
> option.

Could you please test this patch?  You will need to run "autoreconf"
after applying the patch to rebuild configure.

Thanks.

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RCS file: /usr/local/src/security/openssh/cvs/openssh_cvs/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.282
diff -u -p -r1.282 configure.ac
--- configure.ac	2 Aug 2005 14:20:15 -0000	1.282
+++ configure.ac	9 Aug 2005 09:42:52 -0000
@@ -1023,6 +1023,19 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(libedit,
 			[ AC_MSG_ERROR(libedit not found) ],
 			[ -lcurses ]
 		)
+		AC_MSG_CHECKING(if libedit version is compatible)
+		AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <histedit.h>],
+		    [
+int main(void)
+{
+	el_init("", NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	exit(0);
+}
+		    ],
+		    [ AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) ],
+		    [ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+		      AC_MSG_ERROR(libedit version is not compatible) ]
+		)
 	fi ]
 )
 


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