Re: OpenSSH 4.9p1 configure bug

Brian McNally wrote:
The Makefile for OpenSSH 4.9p1 for Linux seems to be broken. It was this was on 4.8 as well. This is on RHEL 5.1.
[...]
So, it seems like gcc -V is getting called incorrectly, which causes problems later on.

I suspect the gcc -V thing is a red herring.

This looks like the problem:

configure:2207: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It appears that you compiler can't create executables with the flags you've supplied. Perhaps it's a 64-bit libraries vs 32-bit compiler thing? I dunno what RHEL does in this regard.

Can you compile a "hello world" program? Is the gcc in the path the one that you expect? ("CC=/usr/bin/gcc ./configure")?

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