Re: Problems with cross-compiled OpenSSH

Dallas Clement wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have successfully cross-compiled OpenSSH, but when I try to start the
> sshd process on my target system, it complains as follows:
>
> /home/dallas/openssh_install/etc/sshd_config: No such file or directory.
>
> Sure enough, that directory does not exist because that is where the
> makefile installed the files on the host from which I did the
> cross-compilation from. The path should have been '/etc/sshd_config'
> instead. It looks like the incorrect path is somehow embedded in the
> sshd executable.
>
> I am configuring openssh as follows for cross-compilation:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/dallas/openssh_install \
> --with-zlib=/home/dallas/zlib_install \
> --with-ssl-dir=/homd/dallas/openssl_install \
> CC=i686-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc
>
> If I do a make and then a make install, the various config files are
> installed to /home/dallas/openssh_install/etc
>
> However, I would like for the various executables to look for the config
> files in the /etc directory on my target system. Does anyone know how to
> do this properly?

./configure --sysconfdir

> I can see that there is a --sysconfdir option, which if I set
> to /etc/ssh, the make install will try to install the config files to
> that directory on my cross-compiling host system which I do not want!!

Use "make install-nosysconf" instead.

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