Call for testing: OpenSSH 6.7

[Kevin Brott]

Tangentially related - the openssl quirks have me intrigued, so I'm going
to dive deeper into what's really required vs the quick hacks I did to get
the snapshots to build and pass tests.

Assuming I can find the time tomorrow, I plan on sitting down and figuring
out exactly what the openssl build requirements really are, but briefly on
the hosts I'm using this is what I've seen:

  a) gcc < 4.x.x - openssl 1.0.1i will not build as shared
  b) gcc >= 4.x.x - openssl 1.0.1i will build either as dynamic or static
  c) on i386 systems - openssh 6.7 will build against static or dynamic
libssl with no issues
  d) on x86_64 systems - openssh 6.7 will build against static libssl only
using --without-pie, otherwise libssl must be dynamic

I'm going to look at the current (and minimal) versions of the openssl
0.9.8, 1.0.0, and 1.0.1 series and see if I can figure out where the break
point is on static vs shared libraries (because I'm curious and I've not
looked into this before). And there's always the hope someone else will
benefit.



On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Kevin Brott <kevin.brott at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Must have bolluxed something up in the compile environment - that or
> http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/openssh-SNAP-20140828.tar.gz had a
> configure tweak that fixed it.  All systems tested now build and pass all
> tests.
>
> That said - the stupid race condition in that one test is cropping up
> sporadically still - I think it's related to the load (or lack thereof) on
> the VM host.
>
> With, of course, the caveat that any system with a native openssl <
> 0.9.8.f will not compile OOTB. A supplemental openssl needs to be installed
> that meets the version requirements, and then ./configure needs a
> --with-ssl-dir= directive that points to it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Kevin Brott wrote:
>>
>> >       > 0.9.8k        FAILxlc_r -g  -I. -I. -I/var/tmp/ssh/include
>> >       ...
>> >       > roaming_client.o"/usr/include/stdarg.h", line 89.9: 1506-236
>> >       (W) Macro name
>> >       > va_copy has been redefined."/usr/include/stdarg.h", line 89.9:
>> >       1506-358 (I)
>> >       > "va_copy" is defined on line 829 of defines.h. xlc_r -o ssh
>> >       ssh.o
>> >
>> >       It looks like configure has failed to detect va_copy and is
>> >       trying to
>> >       supply a surrogate. There might be some clues as to what went
>> >       wrong
>> >       if you search for "va_copy"
>>
>> I meant to say: search config.log for "va_copy"
>>
>> -d
>>
>
>
>
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