configure: error: Missing the libssh_threads library.

[andrei-pavel]

On ./configure, I get configure: error: Missing the libssh_threads library..

Note that this is not libssh which I have at the latest version:

extra/libssh 0.8.2-1 (186.1 KiB 614.0 KiB) (Installed)
    Library for accessing ssh client services through C libraries
core/libssh2 1.8.0-2 (180.2 KiB 346.0 KiB) (Installed)
    A library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by Internet Drafts

This seems to be a biproduct of earlier versions of libssh. While looking for answers, I've found the following libssh 0.8 supports threading, and the specific libssh_threads.so library has been dropped. Packages go to staging on the TODO page of ArchLinux (https://www.archlinux.org/todo/).

Would you update to the latest libssh version?

[mentalibor]

The same thing happened to me on Ubuntu 18.04.01! Hope someone will update the libssh as soon as possible! :)

[andrei-pavel]

Well, to be fair and not too pedantic on your wording, action seems to be required on the libnetconf side. What I suggested was that they update to the latest libssh version in the form of support for pre-0.80 versions and post-0.80 versions separately as now only pre-0.80 versions are supported.

[mentalibor]

You are actually right, because I have tried many different versions of libssh and always the same scenario happens: when I run command ./configure, it says configure: error: Missing the libssh_threads library.

Btw. a friend of mine has an older version of libnetconf library and we will try it. I'll let you know what happened later.

[michalvasko]

Hi,
it should work now also with libssh version 0.8.0 and newer. However, it is already long past libnetconf support has finished so you should have been using libnetconf2.

Regards,
Michal