openssh bugs - Feb 2025 - [Bug 3795] New: ./configure: line 6197: syntax error near unexpected token `-pipe'

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3795

            Bug ID: 3795
           Summary: ./configure: line 6197: syntax error near unexpected
                    token `-pipe'
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 9.9p2
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital

checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking if cc supports C99-style variadic macros... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/local/bin/gmkdir -p
checking for ar... ar
checking for cat... /bin/cat
checking for kill... /bin/kill
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
checking for bash... /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for ksh... (cached) /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for sh... (cached) /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for bash... /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for ksh... (cached) /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for sh... (cached) /usr/local/bin/bash
checking for groff... /usr/bin/groff
checking for nroff... /usr/bin/nroff
checking for mandoc... /usr/local/bin/mandoc
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for groupadd... groupadd
checking for useradd... useradd
checking for pkgmk... no
checking for cc option to enable large file support... none needed
checking for passwd... /usr/bin/passwd
checking for inline... inline
checking for cc options needed to detect all undeclared functions...
none needed
checking whether LLONG_MAX is declared... yes
checking whether LONG_LONG_MAX is declared... yes
checking whether RLIMIT_NPROC is declared... yes
checking whether PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS is declared... no
checking whether OpenSSL will be used for cryptography... yes
checking if cc supports -Werror... yes
./configure: line 6197: syntax error near unexpected token `-pipe'
./configure: line 6197: `       OSSH_CHECK_CFLAG_COMPILE(-pipe)'

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dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital ---
Just removed, redownloaded from github and for some reason it now
works.

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Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
How and where did you get the original one that didn't work?  I'd like
to make sure we don't have a corrupt distribution somewhere...

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
Also, we don't release distribution tarballs on github. Please use one
of the mirrors at https://www.openssh.com/portable.html - these
releases come with signatures

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--- Comment #4 from dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital ---
(In reply to Darren Tucker from comment #2)
> How and where did you get the original one that didn't work?  I'd
> like to make sure we don't have a corrupt distribution somewhere...
I used "git clone https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable.git" 

Followed the instruction below:

cd openssh-portable
autoreconf
./configure
make && make tests

Since that was not working, I then deleted everything with "rm -rf
openssh-portable" and used used the git clone command from above again.
This time it worked.

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--- Comment #5 from dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital ---
(In reply to Damien Miller from comment #3)
> Also, we don't release distribution tarballs on github. Please use
> one of the mirrors at https://www.openssh.com/portable.html - these
> releases come with signatures
So you would not recommend using git clone from
https://github.com/openssh ?

Instead download from https://www.openssh.com/portable.html and go from
there?

thanks for your response.

Cheers

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--- Comment #6 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
(In reply to dvx5j2ljdj2 from comment #4)
> (In reply to Darren Tucker from comment #2)
> > How and where did you get the original one that didn't work? 
I'd
> > like to make sure we don't have a corrupt distribution
somewhere...
> 
> I used "git clone
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable.git"
That's the master branch, which does not have a pre-built configure
file.
> Followed the instruction below:
> 
> cd openssh-portable
> autoreconf
This is the point where you generated "configure" locally.  What
version of Autoconf did you use?  Is it possible the process was
interrupted or ran out of disk space?

(In reply to dvx5j2ljdj2 from comment #5)
> (In reply to Damien Miller from comment #3)
> > Also, we don't release distribution tarballs on github. Please use
> > one of the mirrors at https://www.openssh.com/portable.html - these
> > releases come with signatures
> 
> So you would not recommend using git clone from
> https://github.com/openssh ?
> 
> Instead download from https://www.openssh.com/portable.html and go
> from there?
Downloading a portable tarball from there gets you a signed tarball
containing the autoconf files such as configure, which requires less
trust (ie doesn't trust github) and requires less prep steps which may
go wrong.

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--- Comment #7 from dvx5j2ljdj2 at 0x1.digital ---
>  Is it possible the process was interrupted or ran out of disk space?
more than 1TB of free disk space. 

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Thank you for the explanation. I used to install openSSH before via
brew (homebrew) - which did not work this time. Could not figure out
how to solve the "inreplace error" - so i used the github repo
instead,
thinking it's the "official" or best way. Will use the signed
tarball
from openssh.com in the future.

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