Re: ssh won't compile on fresh potato - what's missing?

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

scode@scode.webprovider.com (Peter Schuller) wrote:
>I just made a fresh potato install a few days ago (thankfully, after that
>big security problem had been fixed) and because of a broken TP cable I
>ended up having to install packages manually (the last part of the
>installation procedure failed).
>
>As a result, there seems to be a few packages mission. One symptome is that
>ssh 1.2.26 won't compile, with the following message:
>
>login.c: In function record_login':
>login.c:437: structure has no member named ut_syslen'
>login.c:441: structure has no member named e_termination'
>login.c:442: structure has no member named e_exit'
>login.c:454: WTMPX_FILE' undeclared (first use in this function)
>login.c:454: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>login.c:454: for each function it appears in.)
>
>Which library defined WTMPX_FILE? Reading login.c, the memeber
>names are non-existent memebers of a utmpx structure.
>
>I have no idea which library these are supposed to come from. Anyone?

On this potato system, I get the following:

[cjw44@riva ~]$ grep -r WTMPX_FILE /usr/include
/usr/include/utmpx.h:# define WTMPX_FILE        _PATH_WTMPX
/usr/include/utmpx.h:# define WTMPX_FILENAME    _PATH_WTMPX
[cjw44@riva ~]$ dlocate -S /usr/include/utmpx.h
libc6-dev: /usr/include/utmpx.h
[cjw44@riva ~]$ 

Does installing libc6-dev help?

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]