How to rebuild openssh 5.2p1 after changing configure.ac

Posted by Arthur Ulfeldt on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Arthur Ulfeldt
Published on 2010-06-18T01:04:02Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 1:13 UTC
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I needed to add AM_PATH_CHECK to configure.am I then try to run the usual sequence of autotools commands to rebuild all the makefiles and whatnot:

aclocal
automake -ac
autoheader
autoreconf
./configure
make

and here my lack of understanding of autotools showes up because this release of openssh has no Makefile.am??? now what do I do?

if i try to ignore this and build anyway configure dies with this lovely error:

checking whether OpenSSL's PRNG is internally seeded... yes
./configure: line 18275: syntax error near unexpected token `PROG_LS,'
./configure: line 18275: `OSSH_PATH_ENTROPY_PROG(PROG_LS, ls)'

caused by this line in configure.ac:

OSSH_PATH_ENTROPY_PROG(PROG_LS, ls)

Is this actually caused by my changes to configure.ac?
what can I do to regenerate the required files to allow configure to work?
if i take my changes out and dont run aclocal then it works???

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