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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:48:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@smarter.than.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem building ssh
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809081941440.370-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809081740220.270-100000@smarter.than.nu>

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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:
> > 
> > > Attempting to build ssh under -CURRENT (a.out, headers and libs CVSup'd
> > > and built today) yields:
> 
> > > sshconnect.o: Undefined symbol `___inet_addr' referenced from text segment
> > 
> > Here, the problem's obvious.  ssh was one of those ports sadly confused
> > by FreeBSD-current's usr of /usr/lib and /usr/lib/aout.  It keeps on
> > looking in /usr/lib for libc, even if your ldconfig has it in
> 
> I nuked the libc in /usr/lib.  Port compiles fine now.  Thanks.

Just be careful ... what with moving FreeBSD-current from aout to elf,
what you described doing ranges from smart to very dangerous.  You have
to be aware of the new rules (if you were working elf, and you nuked the
libc in /usr/lib, you just destroyed your main elf libc!)

> 
> -- 
> Brian Buchanan                                      brian@smarter.than.nu
> 
> Never believe that you know the whole story.
> 
> 
> 

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