On 19 March 2017 at 16:11, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/03/2017 16:37, Richard Melville wrote: > > 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 > > Hi, > > Is it possible that you create a ticket for that? I had forgotten about > the previous post, and I guess my fellow editors too. But it is stuff to be > included in the book IMHO (maybe after some more checking...), and a ticket > allows to remember to do that :-) > > How do I do that? Isn't a ticket for changes to the book (that could be point 3 above which was just a suggestion) rather than errors? Richard
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