Re: sudo dumping core on recent current

"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:29:38 +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:

> In pkgsrc the config.status file ends up with S["vardir"]="no" in it 
> instead of S["vardir"]="/var/db/sudo". This is almost certainly because 
> sudo's configure isn't being passed enough --with-XXXdir options to 
> correctly configure all the right paths.
>
> I'm pretty sure I can convince pkgsrc to behave itself, but I have no 
> idea what sudo should do when given such a defective configuration.

I added some sanity checking to sudo's configure script that should
avoid this happening in the future.

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/85c7e2620ad9859b6eb285b45b6870e68eec7fed

 - todd
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