Call for release testing.

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Mar 2 13:28:15 EST 2007


On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Bill Colvin wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:54:14 +1100
> Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Please send reports of success or failure to
> > openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.
> 
> Tried testing with Snapshot 20070302
> 
> There seems to be an implicit assumption that if locate exists as an
> executable on the system, then there will be a database that can be used
> by locate to find various files.
> 
> This may not always be the case.  In these situations configure will
> fail.  If execute permissions are removed from locate or updatedb is
> executed, then configure will succeed.

??? I don't think we use locate.

[djm at fuyu openssh]$ AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.61 autoreconf
[djm at fuyu openssh]$ grep -i '[^l]locate' configure.ac Makefile.in configure
[djm at fuyu openssh]$

-d


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