openssh bugs - Jun 2006 - [Bug 1202] Missing instructions for building from CVS

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202

           Summary: Missing instructions for building from CVS
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 4.3p2
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://openssh.org/portable.html
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Documentation
        AssignedTo: bitbucket at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: pepper at rockefeller.edu


The page on Portable OpenSSH provides instructions for fetching the
source from CVS via SSH, and links to the INSTALL file.

ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/INSTALL

Unfortunately, the INSTALL file's instructions (to start with
./configure) are insufficient. My HEAD checkout includes configure.ac
but not configure. I guess this is for autoconf/automake, but this
should be documented. Today "autoconf" created a usable configure, but
last week it was failing. Is "autoconf" always intended to work, and
be
the only step between CVS checkouts and the INSTALL procedure?




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------- Comment #1 from djm at mindrot.org  2006-07-01 13:30 -------
The portable.html page has been updated by Darren Tucker.

FYI you can do:

make -f Makefile.in distprep

if you have autoconf installed, it does pretty much the right thing.




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dtucker at zip.com.au changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Comment #2 from dtucker at zip.com.au  2006-07-06 19:16 -------
Also, INSTALL now mentions that you need to run autoreconf if you
changed configure.ac.  It now says:

[quote]
Autoconf:

If you modify configure.ac or configure doesn't exist (eg if you
checked
the code out of CVS yourself) then you will need autoconf-2.59 to
rebuild
the automatically generated files by running "autoreconf".

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
[/quote]

Hopefully that and the additional detail on the web page will clear
this up.

As an aside: should it mention distprep too?  If so then that also
needs an nroff with mandoc macros...




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