On-going portability issue with 9.9p2

[Dennis Clarke]

On 3/1/25 00:40, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 at 14:23, Dennis Clarke via openssh-unix-dev <
> openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> So, I applied the patch from :
>>
>>
>> https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2025-February/041816.html
>>
>> Then did the usual autoreconf dance and then configure fails :
>>
> 
> Which version of autoconf did you use?
> 
> 
>> configure: error: cannot run /opt/bw/bin/bash ../openssh-9.9p2/config.sub
>>
> 
> Take a look in config.log to see what the error is, but my guess is
> config.sub is missing or corrupt.  I suspect something went wrong in the
> autoreconf step.
> 
> You can try this patch (
> https://www.dtucker.net/tmp/openssh-mlkem-popcount.patch) against the V_9_9
> branch from github or mindrot, which is the same thing except it includes
> the autoconf changes.  It seems to work for me (on Linux anyway, while I do
> have a sparc it is not easily accessible, and doesn't have the Sun
> compiler anyway).
It really helps if I remove the --dry-run from the patch command!

Please hold ... technical service monkeys are working.  :)



Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken