openssh unix dev - Feb 2010 - Segmentation Fault while compiling and installing openssh-3.9p1

I am trying to compile and install openssh-3.9p1 (with openssl-0.9.7j)
on my personal dev env to have a play. I get the below mentioned
segmentation fault message. 

---------
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
/bin/sh: line 1: 10901 Segmentation fault      ./ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f
/home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
/bin/sh: line 1: 10902 Segmentation fault      ./ssh-keygen -t dsa -f
/home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
/bin/sh: line 1: 10903 Segmentation fault      ./ssh-keygen -t rsa -f
/home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""
make: *** [host-key] Error 139
---------

My configure and install script looks something like this 

./configure --with-libs=-ldl  --includedir=$HOME/var/vinay_ssh/include
--prefix=$HOME/var/vinay_ssh --exec_prefix=$HOME/var/vinay_ssh
--with-ssl-dir=$HOME/var/openssl
make clean
make install

Config steps shows this 

OpenSSH has been configured with the following options:
                     User binaries: /home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/bin
                   System binaries: /home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/sbin
               Configuration files: /home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/etc
                   Askpass program:
/home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/libexec/ssh-askpass
                      Manual pages: /home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/man/manX
                          PID file: /var/run
  Privilege separation chroot path: /var/empty
            sshd default user PATH:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/vinay/var/vinay_ssh/bin
                    Manpage format: doc
                       PAM support: no
                 KerberosV support: no
                 Smartcard support: no
                     S/KEY support: no
              TCP Wrappers support: no
              MD5 password support: no
       IP address in $DISPLAY hack: no
           Translate v4 in v6 hack: yes
                  BSD Auth support: no
              Random number source: OpenSSL internal ONLY

              Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
          Compiler: gcc
    Compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized
Preprocessor flags: -I/home/vinay/var/openssl/include 
      Linker flags: -L/home/vinay/var/openssl/lib 
         Libraries:   -lcrypto -lutil -lz -lnsl  -ldl -lcrypt -lresolv
-lresolv


Can someone shed light on why could the segmentation fault be generated
?


Regds
Vinay

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Hi Vinay,

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, vinay.purohit at nomura.com wrote:
> I am trying to compile and install openssh-3.9p1 (with openssl-0.9.7j) 
> on my personal dev env to have a play. I get the below mentioned 
> segmentation fault message.
I'm not quite sure where you got the impression that people would give up 
their free time to debug a five-year old version of OpenSSH and a 
three-year old version of OpenSSL. I certainly wouldn't.

If you're reporting a bug in OpenSSH, you could at least do everyone the 
courtesy of trying with the latest version, to ensure that it's not a bug 
that's already been fixed in the last five years, and thus a complete 
waste of time to investigate and fix again.

Also you did not provide nearly enough information about your platform, 
nor a debugger backtrace of the segmentation fault.

Cheers, Chris.
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vinay.purohit at nomura.com wrote:
> I am trying to compile and install openssh-3.9p1 (with openssl-0.9.7j)
That openssh version is 6 years old and the openssl version is 4 years old.
> on my personal dev env to have a play. I get the below mentioned
> segmentation fault message. 
> 
> ---------
> Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
> /bin/sh: line 1: 10901 Segmentation fault      ./ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f
I'm guessing it's crashing in libcrypto, which probably means it's 
broken.  Does openssl's self-test ("make test") pass?  How about
with
current versions of both?

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