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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:59:57 -0800
From:      Studded <Studded@gorean.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/ssh Makefile
Message-ID:  <363B6C3D.73019F7D@gorean.org>
References:  <199810300642.OAA10101@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     security/ssh         Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   configure with "--without-x" if X11BASE/bin/xauth is missing.
> >
> >   Requested by:       Studded@gorean.org
> 
> This isn't necessarily correct..  I thought that --without-x affects
> whether like the GUI ssh-askpass are compiled.  The presense of xauth is a
> different issue.  For a while, I had an a.out /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* and
> an a.out xauth, and ssh needed -without-x even though it still used (and
> was apparently happy with) the older xauth.

	The ssh configure script checks for the presence of xauth, and if it is
not present the script exits with an error unless you specify
--without-x. There may be a better solution, but this solution works
with the way they have the configure script set up. 

Doug
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