Some people have pointed out that ssh does not build under glibc2.1..
Espy was kind enough to fix this, his patch cannot be legally exported
because some people in US political offices suffer from a severe mental
health condition known as Cranium Rectal Insertion. So far, these people
have refused to seek proper treatment for this condition.
To demonstrate how simple it is to get around this problem legally, I
offer the following non-machine-readable instructions for fixing ssh:
* In the file configure.in on or about line 509 is an if statement which
tests for the /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/0 character devices. Modify the
test for /dev/pts/0 to instead test for the existance of the /dev/pts
directory with test -d
* In the file login.c at or around line 79 is an #include directive for
the file "includes.h" with the end of a comment a couple lines above
that. Insert a line here which adds a #define directive for
_GNU_SOURCE.
* Further down in login.c at or about line 446 is an #ifdef directive for
the variable HAVE_SYSLEN_IN_UTMPX. Line 445 just above it is an assign
to the variable ux.ut.syslen, delete this assignment.
I trust that ANYBODY should be able to patch ssh for glibc2.1 with this
even without any C knowledge whatsoever? ;>
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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