Re: OpenSSH 4.9p1 configure bug

Darren, et. al,

The issue was that I was missing the glibc-devel.x86_64 package (on 
RHEL). Installing that allowed me to proceeded. Thanks for the help.

--
Brian McNally


Darren Tucker wrote:
> Brian McNally wrote:
> > The Makefile for OpenSSH 4.9p1 for Linux seems to be broken. It was 
> > this was on 4.8 as well. This is on RHEL 5.1.
> [...]
> > So, it seems like gcc -V is getting called incorrectly, which causes 
> > problems later on.
>
> I suspect the gcc -V thing is a red herring.
>
> This looks like the problem:
>
> > configure:2207: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for 
> > -lc
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> It appears that you compiler can't create executables with the flags 
> you've supplied.  Perhaps it's a 64-bit libraries vs 32-bit compiler 
> thing?  I dunno what RHEL does in this regard.
>
> Can you compile a "hello world" program?  Is the gcc in the path the one 
> that you expect?  ("CC=/usr/bin/gcc ./configure")?