Build bug and execution bug

[Bruce Korb]

The build bug:  DESTDIR=$SOMEDIR does not work:

mkdir ${HOME}/tools/openssh/openssh-5.0p1/_i/usr/local/etc
${HOME}/tools/openssh/openssh-5.0p1/_i/usr/local/sbin/sshd -t -f
${HOME}/tools/openssh/openssh-5.0p1/_i/usr/local/etc/sshd_config
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
make: [check-config] Error 1 (ignored)

(the current version is rooted in /usr, not /usr/local, and these
files live in /etc/ssh.)

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Anyway, the problem that starts it all:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/connection-refused-on-remoteforward-ed-port-652472/#post3198878

basically, the "RemoteForward" is not working as expected.
It works with my client side daemon running 0.9.8c and 0.9.8e
(as reported by "ssh", not "sshd"), but not with 0.9.8g.  On the
server side, I invoke:

/usr/bin/ssh -v -q -g -R ${PORT}:localhost:22 -n \
 -o BatchMode=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no <home-mach>

The only user allowed to ssh in has a shell that does nothing except
keep the connection open.

On my home machine, I then attempt:

 ssh -X -p ${PORT} <work-uname>@localhost

The result (with "-vv'):
OpenSSH_5.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data ${HOME}/.ssh/config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port ${PORT}.
debug1: connect to address 127.0.0.1 port ${PORT}: Connection refused
debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port ${PORT}.
debug1: connect to address ::1 port ${PORT}: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host localhost port ${PORT}: Connection refused


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Help, please?  :)