Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.9

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Darren Tucker wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 14:15, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd at twofifty.com> wrote:
>> I did a fresh clone and started with autoconf and now configure quits
>> with:
>>
>> checking if cc supports -Werror... yes
>> ./configure: 5859: Syntax error: Word "-pipe" unexpected (expecting ")")
>
> That's odd.  What version of autoconf are you using?  We use 2.69 or
> 2.70 and run "autoreconf".
>
> (What's at line 5859 will vary depending on the autoconf that
> generated it, and none of the ones I've tried have -pipe anywhere near
> that line.)
>
> You could also try a snapshot that has configure pre-built:
> http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/

My autoconf is 2.71 and I ran autoreconf.

Here's more of my configure file than you asked for:

  5858 if test "$GCC" = "yes" || test "$GCC" = "egcs"; then
  5859     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-pipe)
  5860     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wunknown-warning-option)
  5861     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wno-error=format-truncation)
  5862     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Qunused-arguments)
  5863     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wall)
  5864     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wextra)
  5865     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wpointer-arith)
  5866     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wuninitialized)
  5867     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wsign-compare)
  5868     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wformat-security)
  5869     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess)
  5870     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wpointer-sign, -Wno-pointer-sign)
  5871     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wunused-parameter, -Wno-unused-parameter)
  5872     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wunused-result, -Wno-unused-result)
  5873     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wimplicit-fallthrough)
  5874     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wmisleading-indentation)
  5875     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-Wbitwise-instead-of-logical)
  5876     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-fno-strict-aliasing)
  5877     if test "x$use_toolchain_hardening" = "x1"; then
  5878     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-mretpoline) # clang
  5879     OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK(-Wl,-z,retpolineplt)
  5880     OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2)
  5881     OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK(-Wl,-z,relro)
  5882     OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK(-Wl,-z,now)
  5883     OSSH_CHECK_LDFLAG_LINK(-Wl,-z,noexecstack)

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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
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