On-going portability issue with 9.9p2

[Dennis Clarke]

On 3/1/25 18:09, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, Dennis Clarke via openssh-unix-dev wrote:
> 
>> On 3/1/25 00:40, Darren Tucker wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 at 14:23, Dennis Clarke via openssh-unix-dev <
>> ...
>>> 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).
>>>
>>
>> Making progress !
>>
>>
>>      checking whether compiler supports __builtin_popcount... no
>>
>> Looks good.
> 
> Did it compile? Did it successfully connect to a different operating
> system using the mlkem768x25519-sha256 KEX?
> 

I went back to testing with your patch and yes I get a compile after a
really long sequence of little problems. The Makefile(s) are problematic
on this sort of machine.

> You can test the latter using:
> 
> ssh -oKEXAlgorithms=mlkem768x25519-sha256 host
> 

I will try the more recent patch and then hack at the Makefiles a bit to
get the link stage to work. Then ... test and be able to give a report.

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