vanilla build of 7.7p1 release on linux/4.17 fails with gcc8 @ "/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-z,retpolineplt'"

[PGNet Dev]

On 6/8/18 1:28 AM, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> The pthread.h was first included in the new OpenSSL 1.1.0, which uses
> pthread.h and which conflicts with your pthread definitions.
> This can be resolved by the first part of the OpenSSL 1.1.0 patch,
> which we carry ever since:
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssh/blob/master/f/openssh-7.3p1-
> openssl-1.1.0.patch

Fair enough for when openssh is built with openssl.

The point in this case is that openssh is configured 
"--without-openssl", so there should be no need for, or reference to, 
openssl.