openssh-2.9.9p2/configure.in says: # Disabled until it works on SCO and HPUX #AC_SYS_LARGEFILE As an autoconf maintainer I'd like to fix this. Can you please explain what's broken on SCO and HPUX? I'm puzzled by the comment, as AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is a feature introduced in autoconf 2.50, whereas openssh-2.9.9p2/configure was built with autoconf 2.13. Anyway, some older GNU software came with implementations of AC_SYS_LARGEFILE that had problems on HPUX, but these problems should all be fixed in the current autoconf version. I don't know of any SCO problems, but I'd like to have them fixed too, if they're still there. Thanks.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Eggert wrote: :openssh-2.9.9p2/configure.in says: : : # Disabled until it works on SCO and HPUX : #AC_SYS_LARGEFILE : :As an autoconf maintainer I'd like to fix this. Can you please cool. :explain what's broken on SCO and HPUX? there are two issues. first, there were some conversion problems in the utmp code when using 64-bit off_t. there's a patch for that. that is not an autoconf problem. next, i have problems with autoconf >=2.50 on hp-ux 11.11. it will not complete make check, and it seems very, very slow when building configure. http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-autoconf/2001-September/001045.html i've tried 2.52d and have a similar loop. i'd like to figure out what's going on here but haven't had time to dig deeper. :I'm puzzled by the comment, as AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is a feature :introduced in autoconf 2.50, whereas openssh-2.9.9p2/configure was :built with autoconf 2.13. 2.9.9p1 used 2.52 with AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and exposed the utmp bug mentioned above. :Anyway, some older GNU software came with implementations of :AC_SYS_LARGEFILE that had problems on HPUX, but these problems should :all be fixed in the current autoconf version. I don't know of any SCO :problems, but I'd like to have them fixed too, if they're still there. i'm using the slow and make check failing 2.52 on hp-ux now with the utmp patch and AC_SYS_LARGEFILE enabled and it appears to be working.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Paul Eggert wrote:> openssh-2.9.9p2/configure.in says: > > # Disabled until it works on SCO and HPUX > #AC_SYS_LARGEFILE > > As an autoconf maintainer I'd like to fix this. Can you please > explain what's broken on SCO and HPUX?[snip]> all be fixed in the current autoconf version. I don't know of any SCO > problems, but I'd like to have them fixed too, if they're still there.The problem on SCO (Open Server 3, aka. 3.2v4.2) is the sed scripts produced by autoconf make sed choke. The configure script worked fine on SCO Open Server 5 ..... checking if your system defines WTMPX_FILE... no configure: creating ./config.status sed: command garbled: s,^[ ]*#[ ]*define[ ][ ]*\(\([^ (][^ (]*\)([^)]*)\)[ ]*\(.*\)$,${ac_dA}\2${ac_dB}\1${ac_dC}\3${ac_dD},gp config.status: creating Makefile ..... If the autoconf testsuite.log is of any interest, I can e-mail it to you or grab it from ftp://ftp.multitalents.net/pub/testsuite.log http://www.multitalents.net/testsuite.log> > Thanks. >-- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 tim at multitalents.net