Hey Larkin,
Hmm, this is a bit weird, but since Matt seems busy these days, I'll see
what I can to do help someone else interested in Dropbear. This is all
my own cursory, 5 minute check over the problem:
Firstly, to disable PIE since you don't need it, pass --disable-harden
to the configure
On Tru64 5.1B with the Compaq C compiler, configure fails when finding
zlib because multiple incompatible flags are added to CFLAGS. It appears
the tests for these flags are passing even though the compiler doesn't
actually support them.
e.g.
configure: Checking if compiler 'cc' supports -Wno