Darren Tucker wrote: #SHELL = /bin/sh Ok, that fixed the syntax error, but now I am getting this failure: This is after I re-downloaded FreeBSD's ports tree to get the latest ports/security/openssl (101g) and did a "make install" there; then in my compilation directory "/usr/local/openssh" I end up getting the below: synergy[378]# make -k host-key (cd openbsd-compat && make) gcc -o ssh-keygen ssh-keygen.o -L. -Lopenbsd-compat/ -L/usr/local/openssl/openssl-1.0.1g -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fstack-protector-all -lssh -lopenbsd-compat -lcrypto -lutil -lz -lcrypt Generating public/private rsa1 key pair. rsa_generate_private_key: key generation failed. *** [host-key] Error code 255 (continuing) 1 error My command history (to have seen the same error no matter what) was 370 1:06 make install 371 1:12 make -k install 373 1:14 make host-key-force 375 1:17 make -k install-nokeys (no error in this case because no keys attempted generation) 378 1:18 make -k host-key I don't know if the command is timing out or cannot create a valid key. Manual attempts at installing openssl, I could not find a compiler-target label that worked (that did not produce one or more of compiler errors, assembler errors, or linker errors) so I gave up and used whatever the FreeBSD ports people gave me. Presumably the openssh compilation is loading against a fresh and valid openssl 1.0.1g library so I'm not faulting that on the first guess. -ecsd _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev