Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:37:39 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH Message-ID: <20050303113739.GD2839@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 3 00:04, Karl M wrote: > >> ./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. > > > >> 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. I'll change the README to use braces and add the tcp_wrappers dependency. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/