ssltelnet problem

[Konstantin Kivi <kkivi@chat.ru>]

Hello All

I have problem with ssltelnet
that I tried to install recently.

first I tried to install binary package
from non-us.debian.org. I tried both 
stable and unstable
ssltelnet crashed 
if I used -z ssl which I believe provides encryption

Then I tried to get source package from the same place
I am not very familiar with debian system of building
package from source but I did it this way

dpkg-source -x ssl*.dsc
cd ssl*/
dpkg-build -b

Then I get the following strange error
gcc -c -g -O -I../../include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLIBC_SCCS strdup.c
strdup.c:13: parse error before &&'
strdup.c:13: _len' undeclared here (not in a function)
strdup.c:13: initializer element is not constant
strdup.c:13: parse error before 	f'
strdup.c:13: conflicting types for _retval'
strdup.c:13: previous declaration of _retval'
strdup.c:13: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
strdup.c:13: parse error before }'
strdup.c:18: ' undeclared here (not in a function)
strdup.c:18: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a
cast
strdup.c:18: initializer element is not constant
strdup.c:18: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
strdup.c:19: parse error before '
make[2]: *** [strdup.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/konst/ssl/ssltelnet-0.11.2/lib/libbsd'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/konst/ssl/ssltelnet-0.11.2'

the source file was very simple (see at the end of the message)
I found that the problem was with -O switch of gcc,
but I cannot understand why it is so

I also don't understand why this package need it's own strdup
and company. How it was build in the real life?

Any help will be appreciated

Konstantin
PS I have slink upgraded partialy to unstable (glibc2.1 libc only)



strdup.c :
/*      $Id: strdup.c,v 1.2 1996/01/31 10:02:49 martin Exp martin $      */

#ifndef lint
static char vcid[] = "$Id: strdup.c,v 1.2 1996/01/31 10:02:49 martin Exp
martin
#endif /* lint */

#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>

#if defined(_AIX_)
char *strdup(char *s)
#else
char *strdup(const char *s)
#endif
{
  char *new;

  new = malloc(strlen(s) + 1);
  strcpy(new, s);

  return new;
}