Thanks for the quick responses.
1. gcpio
It seems to me now that these setld.gcpio.gz files are not worth bothering with,
better to go with the sources, so you know what they do to the system.
A few other people said they too had been puzzled by these gcpio files.
Brenden found me a GNU version of cpio as cpio-2.4.2.setld.tar at
ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/free/by-architecture/alpha-dec-osf4.0d/cpio-2.4.2/
that would probably extract those gcpio archives, for anyone who's still keen.
Meanwhile I downloaded the sources to all four programs (zlib, ssl, egd,
openssh) and started systematically failing to compile them, but at least I
knew it was going along the right track. Sort of.
2. zlib
My sources for zlib must have been a bit bodgy, because after I downloaded
yet another set (see below), Ian's instructions started working beautifully:
> For zlib you can download it from:
>
> ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/
>
> It compiles straight out of the box like this.
>
> # build the shared library
> CC=cc CFLAGS='-O2 -std1' ./configure --shared --prefix=whatever
> make
>
> # now build the static lib
> CC=cc CFLAGS='-O2 -std1' ./configure --prefix=whatever
> make
>
3. The path to openssh nirvana
So far I have beaten the three dependencies into submission, installed them,
and I'm now in heated battle with OpenSSH itself, and a headache.
More doccos to grep in the morning.
Thanks for helpful input from:
Larry Clegg, Todd Willeat, Rob McCauley, Brenden Phillips,
Ian Mortimer, Mike Iglesias, Paul Sand, Dave Sill
Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 06:39:53 NZST