On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Charles Straubel wrote: :I am trying to build openssh on an HP-UX 11.0 machine. I have installed :zlib 1.1.3, openssl 0.9.5a and Perl 5.6.0. :syntax error in file ./mdoc2man.pl at line 39, next 2 tokens "use strict" : :syntax error in file ./mdoc2man.pl at line 73, next 2 tokens "ParseMacro(" : :syntax error in file ./mdoc2man.pl at line 82, next 2 tokens "my (" : :syntax error in file ./mdoc2man.pl at line 452, next 2 tokens "my $tmp " : :Execution of ./mdoc2man.pl aborted due to compilation errors. : :*** Error exit code 255 it seems your perl is wrong. my guess is configure found /usr/contrib/bin/perl which won't work. also, for HP-UX users: "Building and Installing OpenSSH on HP-UX" http://www.atomicgears.com/papers/osshhpux.html