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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
