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Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
Yaakov, one question,
On Nov 19 11:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 16 13:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:10:34PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> > >We're getting a number of bug reports that ssh has a hardcoded path to
> > >/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. As part of the X11 transition, xauth was moved to
> > >/usr/bin, so ssh claims not to find it. A strings check on ssh does
> > >indeed show such a path as well.
> > >
> > >If this is correct, we would greatly appreciate a rebuild of openssh
> >
> > I've taken the liberty of binary-editing ssh.exe to change the
> > hard-coded path from /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth and making a
> > new -9 release. I am not going to announce this however since it's not
> > my package.
>
> Thanks for the tweak. I think this should be fine for now.
>
> > I have bumped the version on the source package too but have no idea if
> > rebuilding openssh from source will fix the problem. I'll leave the
> > true fix to Corinna when she has a chance to rectify this for real.
>
> The xauth path is not hardcoded per se but evaluated at configure time.
> A rebuild with the new X in place should rectify this automatically.
>
> Come to think of it, now we have two different -9 releases, one in
> release and one in release-2. That will invariably confuse me at one
> point. Maybe it is actually better to rebuild from source...
Wouldn't it make sense to create a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
additionally for backward compatibility as it exists on some Linux
systems? Openssh might not be the only affected application.
Corinna
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