Subject: Re: egcs and ssh (Was: Re: link.h)
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/26/1999 16:38:59
I've taken Tege off the cc list (the address bounces anyway)

> On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 03:48:30PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > Uhm, I always forget to mention this... did anynody tell you that
> > > sshd loops endlessly on its initial key generation, if compiled with egcs?
> > > 
> > 
> > I found that the following patches were needed to the gmp library to make 
> > the ssh client run correctly.  They may well fix your problem on the 
> > daemon (sorry, I can't set one of those up to test that directly).  With 
> > these patches, running "make check" in the gmp library now completes 
> > without errors.
> > 
> > Perhaps this should be PR'ed.
> 
> Works for me, outgoing also.
> 
> is this ready (minus the missing subdirectory) to go into our pkg as patch-xy?

It should be
> 
> (would this produce code that doesn't run on all NetbSD suppported ARMs, etc.)

Well it works from a Risc PC as well as a shark.  I've No reason to think 
it wouldn't work on any other supported ARM combination.  It should also 
be backwards compatible with gcc 2.7 (though I haven't tested it).

Richard.