ssh hangs or gives Segmentation fault

[Jean-Pierre.Eckmann at physics.unige.ch]

Details of installation attached.

Effect: when I build and test (with full path names) ssh in the openssh... 
directory, everything works fine. When I "install" it as per attached file 
into a test-directory and run it from there, there are 2 phenomena:

either it just hangs, eating 96% of CPU
or     it dies with a Segmentation fault (this is what happens most often)

Help needed
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PLEASE NOTE: Is this a bug?

I can run ssh in the directory in which I build it , but it crashes or
hangs in the install directory. 



openssh-survey-version: 1

openssh-version: OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004

configure-invocation: configure --prefix=/users/eckmann/export/ssh

host: i686-pc-linux-gnu

uname: Linux

uname-r: 2.6.13

uname-m: i686

uname-p: i686

oslevel: 

oslevel-r: 

cc: gcc

cflags: -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wsign-compare -std=gnu99 

cppflags: 

ldflags: 

libs: -lresolv -lcrypto -lutil -lz -lnsl  -lcrypt

ccver-v: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)

ccver-V: gcc: `-V' option must have argument

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