On 2008-04-03, leonardz@sympatico.ca <leonardz@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I would like to build openssh
>
> 64bit on solaris 10 U4 on a dual core opteron system

Why do you want to build openssh when the system *comes* with
openssh?
>
> My issue is that at the link phase:
>
> SunStudio/12/SUNWspro/bin/cc -V -o ssh ssh.o readconf.o clientloop.o
> sshtty.o sshconnect.o sshconnect1.o sshconnect2.o -L. -Lopenbsd-
> compat/ -L/usr/sfw/lib/amd64 -R/usr/sfw/lib/amd64 -L/usr/lib -R/usr/
> lib -L/usr/sfw/lib/amd64 -lssh -lopenbsd-compat -lresolv -lcrypto -lrt
> -lz -lsocket -lnsl
> cc: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_i386 Patch 124868-01 2007/07/12
> ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris Link Editors: 5.10-1.489
> ld: fatal: file ssh.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to ssh
>
> I need the SunStudio compilers as gcc on the system is 32 bit and will
> nor build 64 bit binaries. S far as I can tell
>
> ssh.o is a 64 bit object
>
> file ssh.o
> ssh.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable AMD64 Version 1
>
> so I am not sure what this is telling me. Has anyone succesfully built
> openssh in 64bit mode on solaris?

It's possible that ld is calling in a 32-bit module from a library. Try
doing it with -m64 to force 64-bit mode.


--
Christopher Mattern

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