On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Subject: Re: Building OpenSSH > > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:25:37 -0500 (EST) > > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Karl M wrote: > > > > > I used the following command from the cygwin openssh readme file. > > > > > > ./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.
Ah, so it is. Initially I missed the fact that this was coming from the README file. FWIW, the above recommendation (about the fonts) applies equally well to the README author. Corinna? > > > 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. Hmm, that's certainly a valid point. However, setup.exe doesn't currently support source package dependencies, so I guess listing them in the README is the only way to go ATM. > > not enough? Or do you mean stuff like "gcc", "ash", "make", etc? > > No, not the tools. Right. Just clarifying. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/