Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.9

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Thorsten Glaser wrote in
 <d0d930df-597a-933c-cd96-7bbcdd7e586f at tarent.de>:
 |On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |
 |> The TinyC compiler tcc does
 |>
 |>   #?0|kent:tcc.git$ git grep -i musl master
 |>   ...
 |>   master:configure:  --config-uClibc,-musl,-mingw32... enable system \
 |>   specific configurations
 |>   master:configure:        if test -f "/lib/ld-musl-$cpu.so.1"; then
 |>   master:configure:          echo "Perhaps you want ./configure --config-\
 |>   musl"
 |
 |Ouch, completely bogus.

It is a nice hint imho.

 |I’ve found one reliable way to detect musl at configure time,
 |at least for the last couple of years of their releases.
 |
 |Compile and link a hello-world program, then check whether the
 |binary contains MUSL_LOCPATH as string.

That .. does not seem to be true for native musl systems?
You could grep for ld-musl or libc.musl though, *i think*.

 |I’ve managed to not need to rely on that. I believe it’s obvious
 |why I’m trying to. I *did* find something recently that would
 |have benefit from musl detection, but it’s just avoiding a bug
 |in old musl versions, so I’m leaving that to the packager and
 |document it. (The testsuite also catches it so I’m now urging
 |people even more to run it.)

--steffen
|
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