openssh unix dev - Apr 2001 - openssh-2.5.2p2 on SunOS 4.1.3

Hi developers, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this
question, so please don't crcify me if it isn't :)

I'm trying to compile openssh-2.5.2p2 on SunOS 4.1.3.

Since SunOS is not in the portable list, I took a look at this mailing
list archive and found some of you guys have been able to compile it.

My ./configure says I don't have the regex library :

configure: error: *** No regex library found.

Where can I get such library?


T.I.A.


-alv-


PS : I'm not a suscriber (obviously :)) so please Cc: me

In the INSTALL file it lists the perfered one:

PCRE (PERL-compatible Regular Expression library):
ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/

Most platforms do not require this.  However older Unices may not have a
posix regex library. PCRE provides a POSIX interface.

- Ben

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alvaro Navarro wrote:
>
> Hi developers, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this
> question, so please don't crcify me if it isn't :)
>
> I'm trying to compile openssh-2.5.2p2 on SunOS 4.1.3.
>
> Since SunOS is not in the portable list, I took a look at this mailing
> list archive and found some of you guys have been able to compile it.
>
> My ./configure says I don't have the regex library :
>
> configure: error: *** No regex library found.
>
> Where can I get such library?
>
>
> T.I.A.
>
>
> -alv-
>
>
> PS : I'm not a suscriber (obviously :)) so please Cc: me
>
>

In message <Pine.BSO.4.33.0104281003330.3482-100000 at etoh.eviladmin.org>
	so spake  (mouring):
> In the INSTALL file it lists the perfered one:
> 
> PCRE (PERL-compatible Regular Expression library):
> ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/
> 
> Most platforms do not require this.  However older Unices may not have a
> posix regex library. PCRE provides a POSIX interface.
Also, the GNU regex package works just fine with OpenSSH on SunOS 4.x
and older IRIX version that lack these routines.

 - todd

--On Saturday, April 28, 2001 9:31 AM -0600 "Todd C. Miller" 
<Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:
> Also, the GNU regex package works just fine with OpenSSH on SunOS 4.x
> and older IRIX version that lack these routines.
But PCRE is _much_ faster. Having just tested many regex routines while 
performance tuning my firewall reporting software, PCRE beats everything 
else by a factor of 4-13. Not that it matters much for these purposes, I 
suppose.

-- 
Carson