Re: compiling openssh 3.5p1 on SuSE 8.1 -- ./configure fails

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Date: 10/27/02 

Date: 26 Oct 2002 21:30:03 -0700

"Walter Harms" <Walter.Harms@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> wrote in message news:<apee2r$ogf@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>...
> "Mark Pearson" <spam@devnull.net> writes:
>
> >"Uli Laube" <uli.laube@t-online.de> wrote in message
> >news:ap214p$bis$04$1@news.t-online.com...
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> I want to install OpenSSH 3.5p1 on my SuSE 8.1 system.
> >> After downloading and unpacking I started ./configure which stops with
> >> the message:
> >>
> >> configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto (see
> >> config.log for details) ***
> >>
> >>
>
> Hi,
> may you need libcrypt.a ? it would make sence for ssh to use
> static linked binaries to avoid problems with hacked .so

Hi,
Try removing the block of lines

#ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
# ifdef __cplusplus
     extern "C"
# endif
   int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
#endif

and see whether that clears things up. This is what solved the
configure problems I was having with newer versions of programs
related to X.