5.5p1/5.6p1 fails tests on SCO Openserver 5.0.7

[Roger Cornelius]

That's bizarre, but yes, it did allow the tests to complete successfully.
Thanks for the tips.  As an exercise, I made all directories in the path
to my original build location 777, did a umask 0, then tried building
again and it still failed.

Roger

On 09/01/2010 13:10, Tim Rice wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Roger Cornelius wrote:
> 
> > Openssh 5.5p1 and 5.6p1
> > SCO OpenServer 5.0.7
> > 
> > I've built various versions of openssh on SCO OSR5.0.7 over the years
> > without much of a problem.  Beginning with 5.5p1 however, I have been
> > unable to get a working install.  I'm building with gcc 2.95.3.  The
> > build completes normally, but 'make tests' fails on several tests:
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> OpenServer 5 is strange. You'll probably find these tests will pass
> if you copy your tree to /usr/tmp and test there. I've had to do this
> for a long time on OpenServer 5.
> My normal build dir (for 5.6) is /usr/local/src/networking/openssh-5.6
> testing there fails.
> .......
> $ tail x.tst
> sftp commands: rmdir
> sftp commands: lmkdir
> sftp commands: lchdir
> rm: cannot remove .
> rm: cannot remove ..
> rm: .cvsignore not removed: Read-only file system (error 30)
> failed sftp commands
> gmake[1]: *** [t-exec] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp_mnt/opt/src/networking/openssh/openssh-5.6/regress'
> gmake: *** [tests] Error 2
> .......
> 
> But copying it all to /usr/tmp/openssh-5.6 gets me
> ......
> $ tail x.tst2
> certified user keys: principals key option principals auth authorized_keys expect success rsa_v00
> certified user keys: principals key option no principals auth authorized_keys expect failure rsa
> certified user keys: principals key option no principals auth authorized_keys expect failure rsa_v00
> certified user keys: user rsa connect wrong cert
> certified user keys: user dsa connect wrong cert
> certified user keys: user rsa_v00 connect wrong cert
> certified user keys: user dsa_v00 connect wrong cert
> ok certified user keys
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp_mnt/opt/src/networking/openssh/openssh-5.6/regress'
> all tests passed
> ......
> 
>  
> > I haven't pursued beyond this since the cert- scripts are show stoppers.
> > I've perused the mailing list archives and don't see anything similar.
> > I've also tried building without optimization on the off chance it was
> > something to do with gcc.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>  
> One other tip, on 5.0.7 you can put this
> CPPFLAGS="-Dvsnprintf=_xvsnprintf -Dsnprintf=_xsnprintf"
> in front of your configure command to use the native POSIX vsnprintf/snprintf
> instead of the ones in openbsd-compat.
> 
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