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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am writing to comment on problems I have seen in
the past that are currently still problems with compiling OpenSSH with the Sun
Forte Compiler version 6 update 2 and gcc on Solaris 8 (not suprising since the
problems are actually in the openssl code). I used the snapshot from 11/4 for
this test on a brand new system I built from the July release of Solaris 8. I
have the latest linker patches, C, C++ library patches, etc. If you want to see
the ouput of showrev, etc I can provide this. People in the past suggested that
I apply the latest linker patch in the past to fix the problem, however that is
not true. The only way I can compile openssh and have it work is to do the
following suggest from people on this list. Others should be able to replicate
my problems easily. I am reporting back now, because I finally got a chance to
rejump my Ultra10 that I used to do the compile. If nobody else has these
problems then something else must be wrong on my machine, but I don't see
what.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I built the following from source with Sun Forte 6
update 2:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>zlib 1.1.3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>openssl 0.9.6b</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tcp_wrappers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>skey libraries</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>prngd0.9.23</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Oh and skey does not work...it fails checking for
skey_keyinfo... no config error missing s/key libraries...I was able to compile
and install skey without problems as long as I used gnu-make...but openssh
snapshot from 11/4 can not find the libraries...so I think something is wrong
there as well.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The compilation options I used for various code are
documented in the Sun Blueprint "Building and Deploying OpenSSH for the Solaris
Operating Environment"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The source changes I made are below for
openssl (suggested by several here):</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Please change
line 69 in openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/dsa/dsa_lib.c from<BR> static DSA_METHOD
*default_DSA_method;<BR>to <BR> static DSA_METHOD *default_DSA_method =
NULL;<BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I just found
another of these beasts in crypto/dh/dh_lib.c. Change<BR> static const
DH_METHOD *default_DH_method;<BR>to<BR> static const DH_METHOD
*default_DH_method = NULL;</FONT><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>