On 17 March 2017 at 19:55, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17 March 2017 at 19:04, Chris Staub <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 03/17/2017 02:41 PM, Richard Melville wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting:-
>>>
>>> checking for LIBGNUTLS... no
>>>
>>> when running the configure script.  The configure summary includes:-
>>>
>>> TLS support: no
>>>
>>> I have GnuTLS installed, and it's not a script issue this time.  Does
>>> anybody know why this is happening?
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> GnuPG recognizes GnuTLS for me...
>>
>> TLS support:         gnutls
>>
>> Maybe config.log gives a hint of why it's not being found for you.
>>
>
> Thanks Chris -- I won't be able to check this out until after the weekend
> now.
>

OK, I returned earlier than expected.  I've checked the GnuPG build and it
seems that libidn2 hadn't created a pkgconfig file.  I've manually created
one, and now GnuPG builds with GnuTLS support, but questions remain:-

1. What could have stopped the libidn2 build from creating a .pc file?  I
seem to remember having this issue a few years ago, but I can't remember
which package was affected.

2.  Libidn2 appears to be a dependency of GnuTLS.  The book wrongly shows
libidn as an optional dependency.  Instead, libidn2 needs to be in the
required dependency list, particularly if GnuTLS support is required in a
future GnuPG build.

3. Shouldn't libidn2 have a page of its own in the book, like NASM and Yasm?

4. GnuTLS needs to be shown as an optional dependency of GnuPG.  I have
already mentioned this in an  earlier post (titled GnuPG-2.1.18).

Richard
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