Re: Help! problem with gmp

[Kevin Ryde]

Mike Lee <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> I am having trouble installing ssh on a
> #uname -a
> SunOS stage1.thirdage.com 5.5.1 Generic_103640-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
> 
> it compiles fine, but when trying to generate a key, it hangs, apparently
> on a gmp function, mpz_powm.  The gmp2 source came with the
> ssh distribution, so I cd'd to that subdir and built gmp separately.

Does the problem occur with the current gmp (3.1.1)?  You might want
to upgrade if you can.  (Not that I know anything about ssh and
whether upgrading would be easy or hard.)

> Our shop has several Sparc Solaris 2.5.1-2.7 machines.  Ssh was compiled
> on all of them and works fine on every machine except the one
> described above (uname -a).  Gmp also compiles fine and checks out ok on
> the rest of those machines.  I have tried coping binaries, libraries and
> config files from the working machines to the problem machine to no
> avail.  I compared files and configurations between the problem machine
> and the working machines and could not find any differences, or any reason
> this problem happens only on one machine.  

That sounds suspicious.  If a binary fails on just one machine that'd
suggest the machine at fault perhaps.  Do the gmp test program
binaries also come out idential and run differently?