[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:49:03 +0300, you wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:15:23PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> |zlib.c:35: warning: #warning zlib.h not present
> >
> > You most probably need to install the
> > package "zlib1g-dev"
>
> |mh@torres[1/501]:/mnt/main6/home/mh$ dpkg --list | grep zlib
> |ii zlib1g 1.1.3-2 compression library - runtime
> |ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-2 compression library - development
> |mh@torres[2/502]:/mnt/main6/home/mh$
>
> I don't think so.
Either your zlib installation or lsh's configure script seem to be
broken. Where is the zlib.h file located on your system?
BTW1: It is actually a known bug that lsh can't be compiled without
zlib; if no zlib is found, it should simply disable the compression
support but go on building.
BTW2: I actually tried compiling lsh under cygwin some time ago, but
didn't get further than compilation errors because I didn't have zlib
installed. To get anything useful under w*ndows, I'd guess you also
need some kind of terminal emulator.
> >> I strongly feel that lsh is a good thing since the community
> >> desperately needs a freely distributable ssh suite. However, I was
> >> told by a colleague that there are license problems with the scheme
> >> library Niels uses and this will make lsh essentially non-free. Can
> >> anybody fill me in on that licensing issue?
Scsh is not free software, strictly speaking. scsh is not required to
actually use lsh, but it is used to preprocess some of the C source
files, so you need it if you want to hack lsh. I view this as a minor
practical problem, because the scsh-folks doesn't seem to have any
objections to this way of using scsh, and as a minor legal problem, as
it should be straightforward to adapt the code to use some other
scheme implementation. And as Tommy said, he has actually done the
work needed to use guile instead of scsh.
The problem with scsh, and with scheme48 which scsh is based upon, is
that the license does not allow commercial use without permission from
the author. I think there are some more details about the issue in
debian's bug database, including a reply from Olin Shivers, the scsh
author.
Regards,
/Niels
