On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Gregor Mosheh wrote:

> When you do configure, give it the --without-x option, e.g.
>    ./configure --without-x && make
> 

You could do this, but then transparent X authentication won't work.

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Robert J. Schadey wrote:
> 
> > I am compiling SSH 1.2.29 on Solaris 2.6. I receive the following error
> > while running the configuration script.
> > 
> > configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting
> > 
> > I believe this could be due to couple of things. Either the configuration
> > script source for the xauth portion is incorrect, or my environment source
> > path for xauth is incorrect.

In my experience, this is because xauth is not in your path.  Figure
out where xauth is (On Sol 2.5.1 it's in /usr/openwin/bin) and then
add that to your path.  Rerun configure and it should find it OK.

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