Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote at 18:33 -0500 on Mar 21, 2008:
 > I'm attempting to compile the client version of amanda on a Dell PowerEdge 
 > server running FreeBSD 6.3 but keep running into an ssh related error.  I 
 > use 
 > the following configure statement:
 > 
 > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/amanda25 --infodir=/usr/share/info 
 > --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-user=amanda --with-group=operator 
 > --with-config=daily --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/amgtar 
 > --with-gnutar-listdir=/usr/local/amanda25/gnutar-lists --with-debugging 
 > --with-debug-days=21 --with-fqdn --with-ssh-security --with-buffered-dump 
 > --with-dump-honor-nodump --without-server 
 > --with-tape-server=amandaserver.utexas.edu --with-tmpdir=/tmp/amanda 
 > --with-index-server=amandaserver.utexas.edu
 > 
 > but eventually I get this error:
 > 
 > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-freebsd6.3
 > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-freebsd6.3
 > checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-freebsd6.3
 > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 > ......
 > checking for egrep... /usr/bin/egrep
 > checking for lint... /usr/bin/lint
 > lint: illegal option -- f
 > usage: lint [-abceghprvwxzHF] [-s|-t] [-i|-nu] [-Dname[=def]] [-Uname] [-X 
 > <id>[,<id>]...
 >        [-Idirectory] [-Ldirectory] [-llibrary] [-ooutputfile] file...
 >         lint [-abceghprvwzHF] [-s|-t] -Clibrary [-Dname[=def]]
 >   [-X <id>[,<id>]...
 >        [-Idirectory] [-Uname] [-Bpath] file ...
 > checking for raw ftape device... /dev/null
 > checking for Kerberos and Amanda kerberos4 bits... no
 > checking for ssh... /usr/bin/ssh
 > checking SSH options... ./configure.lineno: ${i/...}: Bad substitution
 > 
 > 
 > (ignore the lint related error)  If I take out the "--with-ssh-security", 
 > amanda 
 > configures without a problem.  Here's some of the output from  
 > /var/run/dmesg.boot:

What version of amanda?
config.log will give more details about the error.