OpenSSH-Portable trying to install X11?

Question

I'm trying to upgrade OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and Apache22 on a FreeBSD 8.1 system. I'm already running OpenSSH-Portable, so that's not really a problem.

Where I run into trouble is that openssh-portable is trying to install libXext. How can I tell this port to ignore X11 requirements?

Why would you want to? What is the harm? It is just a library to permit X11 forwarding. — Zoredache, Mar 13 '12 at 15:42
It is actually failing a requirement and not able to install. So it is blocking the package being installed. — Jack M., Mar 13 '12 at 15:47
The only build/run dep I see for security/openssh-portable is perl5. What options have you set in the config dialog? Which dependency is failing? — D_Bye, Mar 13 '12 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '12 at 05:18

I agree with the commenters that there's something unusual going on here. I do know that OpenSSH supports X11 forwarding, which might require libXext in some circumstances, but that seems unlikely to me, as the sshd that comes with FreeBSD has no explicit X dependencies:

royce@atoz$ ldd `which sshd`
/usr/sbin/sshd:
        libssh.so.5 => /usr/lib/libssh.so.5 (0x800681000)
        libutil.so.8 => /lib/libutil.so.8 (0x8007cc000)
        libz.so.5 => /lib/libz.so.5 (0x8008dc000)
        libwrap.so.6 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.6 (0x8009f1000)
        libpam.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.5 (0x800afa000)
        libbsm.so.3 => /usr/lib/libbsm.so.3 (0x800c02000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.10 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.10 (0x800d1d000)
        libgssapi.so.10 => /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.10 (0x800e37000)
        libkrb5.so.10 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.10 (0x800f41000)
        libasn1.so.10 => /usr/lib/libasn1.so.10 (0x8010b0000)
        libcrypto.so.6 => /lib/libcrypto.so.6 (0x801232000)
        libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x8014d2000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x8015f2000)
        libhx509.so.10 => /usr/lib/libhx509.so.10 (0x801834000)
        libcom_err.so.5 => /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.5 (0x801974000)
        libmd.so.5 => /lib/libmd.so.5 (0x801a76000)
        libroken.so.10 => /usr/lib/libroken.so.10 (0x801b86000)

Have you changed any of the port's options? If so, a good next troubleshooting step would be for you to post the contents of /var/db/ports/openssh/options. The current default options in openssh-portable's Makefile are as follows, and do not trigger the installation of libXext for me:

OPTIONS=   PAM             "Enable pam(3) support"                         on \
           TCP_WRAPPERS    "Enable tcp_wrappers support"                   on \
           LIBEDIT         "Enable readline support to sftp(1)"            on \
           SUID_SSH        "Enable suid SSH (Recommended off)"             off \
           BSM             "Enable OpenBSM Auditing"                       off \
           KERBEROS        "Enable kerberos (autodetection)"               off \
           KERB_GSSAPI     "Enable Kerberos/GSSAPI patch (req: GSSAPI)"    off \
           OPENSSH_CHROOT  "Enable CHROOT support"                         off \
           HPN             "Enable HPN-SSH patch"                          off \
           LPK             "Enable LDAP Public Key (LPK) patch"            off \
           X509            "Enable x509 certificate patch"                 off \
           FILECONTROL     "Enable file control patch (broken)"            off \
           OVERWRITE_BASE  "OpenSSH overwrite base"                        off

I'm not enough of a user of most of these options to immediately see if any of them require any X11. But if you trace each of the dependencies, one of them may need libXext, and any ones that you've toggled are more likely to be the culprit.

Generally speaking, if you don't want anything X-related for any of your ports (which is often the case on a server), you can add WITHOUT_X11 to /etc/make.conf, but that's a shot in the dark that you could try as a diagnostic step, and doesn't actually reveal the root cause of your issue. If you're just interested in a quick fix, that might help.

OpenSSH-Portable trying to install X11?

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