Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/03/03:16:32
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote:
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH
> > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote:
> >
> > > I used the following command from the cygwin openssh readme file.
> > >
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='$(sbindir)' \
> > > --localstatedir=/var --datadir='$(prefix)/share' \
> > > --mandir='$(datadir)/man' --with-tcp-wrappers
> > >
> > > The configure complains that commands sbindir and datadir are not
> > > defined. Should I be doing things differently?
> >
> > Those are supposed to be braces, not parentheses. I.e., use
> > "${sbindir}" instead of "$(sbindir)". I would also recommend using a
> > font that makes better distinction between "(" and "{".
>
> That is what I suspected...so take a look at the openssh.README
> file...so it is a typo there.
Ah, so it is. Initially I missed the fact that this was coming from the
README file. FWIW, the above recommendation (about the fonts) applies
equally well to the README author. Corinna?
> > > Also, would it be possible for the OpenSSH maintainer to create a
> > > package (pseudo package) that captures the dependencies required to
> > > build OpenSSH? It would make building it much easier.
> >
> > Is this sentence from the end of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README:
> >
> > You must have installed the zlib, the openssl-devel and the
> > minires-devel packages to be able to build OpenSSH!
>
> Also TCP Wrappers and I don't recall if there was anything else (it is
> past my bedtime). It is not worth a lot of work, but it might not be a
> bad way to "document" the dependences.
Hmm, that's certainly a valid point. However, setup.exe doesn't currently
support source package dependencies, so I guess listing them in the README
is the only way to go ATM.
> > not enough? Or do you mean stuff like "gcc", "ash", "make", etc?
>
> No, not the tools.
Right. Just clarifying.
Igor
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