Re: OpenSSH 3.0.2p1 install runs compiler?
From: Dan Million (lio@ornl.gov)Date: 02/26/02
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From: Dan Million <lio@ornl.gov> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:18:58 -0500
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> "Dan Million" <lio@ornl.gov> wrote in message
> news:3C7A68C0.3818F3B7@ornl.gov...
> > I've noticed that in OpenSSH 3.0.2p1, running "make install"
> > always runs the compiler now to relink the executables, and
> > I was wondering why this was necessary? It makes it impossible
> > to run "make install" from an NFS build area to install on
> > hosts which don't have compilers, or which don't have the SSL
> > and zlib libraries available.
> >
> > Is there a reason for this, or did a bug creep into the Makefile?
> >
> > (This is on AIX 4.3, if it matters.)
>
> Dynamic library loading: moving the binary requires re-linking such
> libraries under some circumstances, and if they are dynamic libraries you
> *must* have them available at run-time, not just compile time.
I can't see that the relinking is accomplishing anything. And our
SSL and Z libraries are both static, so they aren't needed on all hosts.
So I still don't see the point of this. It just makes propagation of
new OpenSSH releases to multiple clients more difficult.
Dan
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