On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:33:58PM -0400, Larkin Nickle wrote:
> OpenSSH is broken on HP-UX 10.x as the libc has an undocumented `getline`
> which is detected by configure, openbsd-compat's `getline` ends up not being
> used. This causes a segfault as soon as you try to do anything useful with
> the built binaries.
>
> I think it could be worked around with something like this (after taking
> getline out of the long list of functions to check) in configure.ac, but
> consider this as pseudocode as I don't know much about actually writing
> m4/for autoconf:
Usually we have a BROKEN_$THING to disable $THING in that case (grep for
BROKEN_SNPRINTF for an example), and there's an existing case statement
for HP-UX where we can put it. Please try this patch (you'll need to
run "autoreconf" to rebuild configure).
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 57fcc9bc..67824888 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -765,6 +765,7 @@ main() { if (NSVersionOfRunTimeLibrary("System") >= (60 << 16))
if test -z "$GCC"; then
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Ae"
fi
+ AC_DEFINE([BROKEN_GETLINE], [1], [getine is not what we expect])
;;
*-*-hpux11*)
AC_DEFINE([PAM_SUN_CODEBASE], [1],
diff --git a/openbsd-compat/bsd-getline.c b/openbsd-compat/bsd-getline.c
index d676f4ce..a1c78e96 100644
--- a/openbsd-compat/bsd-getline.c
+++ b/openbsd-compat/bsd-getline.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
#include "file.h"
#endif
-#if !HAVE_GETLINE
+#if !defined(HAVE_GETLINE) && !defined(BROKEN_GETLINE)
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
--
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