name pollution

Damien Miller
Sat, 02 Apr 2005 10:09:13 -0000

Peter Quiring wrote:
> I've finally got SSH compiling for me, but there are a few filenames
> that conflict with other projects out there (zlib, etc.) and I'm unable
> to create a monolithic library with SSH without renaming some files.
> Could you prefix "ssh" to the following files in the next release
of
> OpenSSH.  Thanks.
>
> crc32,buffer,compress,base64(openbsd file).

We won't rename these - to do so would obfuscate a lot of CVS history
and make it difficult find changes with "cvs diff". Perhaps you should
just adjust your build scripts to do the renames for you.

-d