"Tracy J. Di Marco White" wrote:

> 
> This is using 1.4_ALPHA, I'me installing 1.4_BETA in the morning, but
> I expect nothng should change much.  Is there something I should set
> for this to work?
> 
> cc -pipe -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -o ssh ssh.o sshconnect.o log-client.o readconf.o hostfile.o readpass.o  tildexpand.o clientloop.o c
anohost.o  idea.o  rsa.o randoms.o md5.o buffer.o emulate.o packet.o compress.o  xmalloc.o ttymodes.o newchannels.o bufaux.o authfd.o authfile.o  crc
32.o rsaglue.o cipher.o des.o match.o arcfour.o mpaux.o  userfile.o signals.o blowfish.o deattack.o   -Lgmp-2.0.2-ssh-2 -lgmp -L/usr/lib -lz  -L/usr/
pkg/lib -lrsaref -lcrypt -L/usr/local/lib  -lutil
> /usr/bin/ld: mpn_add_n.o: linking PIC files with non-PIC files
> Bad value: failed to merge target specific data of file gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/libgmp.a(mpn_add_n.o)

> [[ more PIC/non-PIC errors deleted ]]

Put this in pkgsrc/security/ssh/patches/patch-ap, do a "make clean" and
start again:

---------------------------------- cut here ----------------------------------
--- gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/configure.in.orig	Mon Apr 26 19:50:09 1999
+++ gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/configure.in	Mon Apr 26 20:06:07 1999
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@
   sh2-*-*)
     path="sh/sh2 sh"
     ;;
+  mips*-*-netbsd*)
+    path="mips2"
+    SFLAGS="-Wa,-KPIC"
+    ;;
   mips[34]*-*-*)
     path="mips3"
     ;;
--- gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/configure.orig	Thu Jul  9 02:40:44 1998
+++ gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2/configure	Mon Apr 26 20:06:12 1999
@@ -1955,6 +1955,10 @@
   sh2-*-*)
     path="sh/sh2 sh"
     ;;
+  mips*-*-netbsd*)
+    path="mips2"
+    SFLAGS="-Wa,-KPIC"
+    ;;
   mips[34]*-*-*)
     path="mips3"
     ;;
---------------------------------- cut here ----------------------------------

This works for me, and should be included in pkgsrc soon (I'm just
waiting for an OK).  If you wanted to install devel/gmp, you'd need
something similar (but not quite :-).

Simon.