openssh-3.0.1p1-2:zlib error

Ean Houts ehouts@efficient.com
Mon Nov 19 03:52:00 GMT 2001


Not sure if this is really a bug, but it was definately unclear to
me...anyway, I'm trying to compile openssh, which requires zlib. 

I'm running on NT4.0, with the latest cygwin, gcc, etc. installed.

I installed the latest zlib from one of the cygwin mirrors, but still got
the  '*** zlib missing - please install first or check config.log ***' error
when trying to run configure.  I triple checked everything for zlib and it
was fine, so I downloaded the source, compiled it, ran test ok and used that
dll - same prob.  I even specified the --with-zlib= option to specify an
explicit path, with the same result. 

So, I faked out the part of configure that checks for it, and got as far as
the regex check...that was missing too.  So, I installed that, and suddenly
openssh was able to find zlib!  Everything proceeded fine from there, but
the zlib missing error was definately misleading.

thanks,
Ean

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