Bug 17

Summary: Build fails on Solaris 2.5.1 - vsnprintf does not exist
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: William Korb <korb>
Component: Build systemAssignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status: CLOSED INVALID    
Severity: major    
Priority: P2    
Version: -current   
Hardware: All   
OS: Solaris   

Description William Korb 2001-11-14 04:36:13 AEDT 
The build process of OpenSSH 3.0p1 on Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1) fails. I
invoked the config script as follows:

./configure --prefix=/opt/openssh --with-ssl-dir=/opt/openssl \
  --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh

It proceeds through the configuration script (slowly - this is a Sun SS1000) and
eventually reports this:

checking for vsnprintf... no

However, when configuration completes, I run make and it eventually fails
thusly:

cc -g -I. -I. -I/opt/openssl/include  -I/usr/local/include
-DETCDIR=\"/etc/ssh\"  -D_PATH_SSH_PROGRAM=\"/opt/openssh/bin/ssh\"
-D_PATH_SSH_ASKPASS_DEFAULT=\"/opt/openssh/libexec/ssh-askpass\" 
-D_PATH_SFTP_SERVER=\"/opt/openssh/libexec/sftp-server\" 
-D_PATH_SSH_PIDDIR=\"/var/run\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c authfd.c
ld.so.1: /sw/com/SUNWspro/6.1/bin/../WS6U1/bin/acomp: fatal: relocation error:
file /sw/com/SUNWspro/6.1/bin/../WS6U1/bin/acomp: symbol vsnprintf: referenced
symbol not found
cc: Fatal error in /sw/com/SUNWspro/6.1/bin/../WS6U1/bin/acomp : Killed
*** Error code 9
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `authfd.o'

Upon further investigation, I find this in config.h:

/* Define if you have the `vsnprintf' function. */
/* #undef HAVE_VSNPRINTF */

Shouldn't that be uncommented since I do not have vsnprintf in 5.5.1?

I tried uncommenting that line and then rerunning make, but that doesn't fix the
problem.

BTW, I have Sun's current recommended 5.5.1 patch cluster installed on the build
system.
Comment 1 Darren J Moffat 2001-12-12 06:06:31 AEDT 
The vsnprintf is a red herring, note that the error message comes from
ld.so.1 when loading the acomp program.  What this is saying is that
acomp actually calls vsnprintf but ld.so.1 couldn't resolve that symbol.

Since the Forte Developer 6 update 1 acomp was compiled and linked on
Solaris 2.6, it won't run on Solaris 2.5.1.

Forte Developer 6 (WS6) dropped Solaris 2.5.1 support; so did
Forte Developer 6 update 1 (WS6U1) and Forte Developer 6 update 2 (WS6U2).

So if you want to compile on Solaris 2.5.1 you need to use an older
compiler.

So this isn't a bug in OpenSSH.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:17 AEST 
Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED