Building OpenSSH 3.5p1 on SunOS 4.1.4

Hi,

        I am having trouble building OpenSSH 3.5p1 under SunOS 4.1.4. I am using gcc 2.95.2, and have successfully built OpenSSL 0.9.6g and zlib 1.1.4, but having unpacked gzipped tarball of OpenSSH, the "./configure" step fails. It appears to hang for a while (a few minutes) before generating any output, which looks like:

  $ ./configure
./configure: /tmp/sh104475: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh104476: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh104477: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh104478: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh104479: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh1044710: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh1044711: No such file or directory
./configure: /tmp/sh1044712: No such file or directory
  configure: loading cache /dev/null
  checking for gcc... gcc
./configure: /tmp/sh1044713: No such file or directory
  checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

I had a look at the configure script, and discovered that even "./configure --help" fails, and this appears to be caused by the "exec 6>&1" section of script. I took out all the exec statements which redirected file descriptor 6, and "./configure --help" works, but a full configure fails as before.

I suspect that there is something weird about SunOS' Bourne shell/exec, but I don't know where to go now. I checked the MARC archives, but can't find anything like this.

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers,

John.

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John P. Martin
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
G.I.S., Motorola. Received on Thu Jan 23 12:33:44 2003