I just installed OpenSSH 4.6p1 on my laptop which runs a fresh install
of Slackware 11.0, and that went very successfully.

When I tried doing a "make" on SSH 1.2.33, I got a bunch of error
messages. Most of them are coming from a file called "divmod_1.c",
reporting syntax errors and stuff, as posted below:

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....
divmod_1.c:191: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
divmod_1.c:193: error: syntax error before "if"
divmod_1.c:204: error: syntax error before ':' token
make[3]: *** [divmod_1.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/ssh-1.2.33/gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/
mpn'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/ssh-1.2.33/gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/
mpn'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/ssh-1.2.33/gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2'
make: *** [gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/libgmp.a] Error 2
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There was a big long list of other divmod errors above that. I have
very little experience in Shell and C programming. I'm just trying to
install SSH1 and 2. When I installed Slackware, I did a full install,
and I realize that SSH was automatically installed. I did in fact use
it before I obtained the latest source code. I'm just doing this for
the sake of installing new software, and getting experience with SSH.

Any ideas about where to start? If someone could point me in the
right direction, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Steven

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Steven Borrelli wrote:
> I just installed OpenSSH 4.6p1 on my laptop which runs a fresh install
> of Slackware 11.0, and that went very successfully.
> When I tried doing a "make" on SSH 1.2.33, I got a bunch of error
> messages. Most of them are coming from a file called "divmod_1.c",
> reporting syntax errors and stuff, as posted below:

did you do a "./configure" step first ? The dance usually
goes like:
./configure
make
make install

<Clue>
Take a very close look at the files you will find in the folder
slackware-11.0/source/n/openssh/ and in particular the build
script, openssh.SlackBuild.
</Clue>


[...]
> very little experience in Shell and C programming. I'm just trying to
> install SSH1 and 2. When I installed Slackware, I did a full install,
> and I realize that SSH was automatically installed. I did in fact use
> it before I obtained the latest source code. I'm just doing this for
> the sake of installing new software, and getting experience with SSH.

excellent.

note that there are two main ways to install software on a slackware
system - (1) being the usual slackware tarball binary packages, eg.,
openssh-4.4p1-i486-1.tgz, (2) being the 'build from source' method you
are trying here with ssh. Both have their particular advantages and
disadvantages.

A third method is the SlackBuild method, aka 'roll your own' method,
that is, using the source distro to create a binary tarball compatible
with the usual slackware pkg tools. This is how Volkerding does it.
This method usually require some considerable skill to do from scratch,
but is relatively easy and even trivial -> IF an existing SlackBuild
can be adapted. and you already have one of those somewhere nearby.



HTH.
--
William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA