openssh unix dev - Aug 2006 - openssh 4.3p2 configure problem

In configure for openssh 4.3p2 is this:

as_executable_p="test -f"

as_executable_p, as the name suggests, is used to test whether a file is
executable or not, so should use -x and not -f.  Discovered after doing
chmod a-x gcc so configure would not discover it, but found it anyway.
-- 
Roger Cornelius        rac at tenzing.org

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Roger Cornelius wrote:
> In configure for openssh 4.3p2 is this:
> 
> as_executable_p="test -f"
> 
> as_executable_p, as the name suggests, is used to test whether a file is
> executable or not, so should use -x and not -f.  Discovered after doing
> chmod a-x gcc so configure would not discover it, but found it anyway.
That's an autoconf issue.
 
It looks like this is fixed in autoconf 2.60
The next release (and current snapshots) will be using a configure
generated by autoconf 2.60.

-- 
Tim Rice				Multitalents	(707) 887-1469
tim at multitalents.net