On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:25:51PM -0500, DRC wrote: > Additional fuel for this discussion-- the Windows build now fails as > well unless you specify "configure --disable-gnutls".
Thanks for report. Should be fixed in r4051. > On 4/28/10 2:53 PM, DRC wrote: > > There are a couple of problems with this, as I see it: > > > > 1) GNU TLS support is enabled by default, so if GNU TLS isn't installed > > on the system (which is the case for non-Linux systems, generally), then > > configure fails. Our build should not require GNU TLS, nor should it > > require that the user explicitly specify --disable-gnutls. > > > > 2) The PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro isn't generally available on all systems. > > Not just OS X, as it turns out. A Google search of several forums > > seems to indicate that it isn't present on FreeBSD as well. > > > > 3) The PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro always generates a fatal condition if GNU > > TLS isn't available. > > > > > > I believe that the behavior should be as follows: > > > > -- A mechanism other than PKG_CHECK_MODULES should be used to detect the > > presence of GNU TLS (AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_CHECK_HEADER, probably.) > > > > -- If GNU TLS is present, then it should be enabled by default. If it > > is not present, then it should be disabled by default. > > > > -- If GNU TLS is present, then the user can specify --disable-gnutls to > > disable it. > > > > > > An alternative solution: > > > > -- PKG_CHECK_MODULES should be made non-fatal, if possible, or ... > > -- Enabling GNU TLS support should not be the default. > > > > -- A local version of PKG_CHECK_MODULES should be included in our build > > for use on systems that do not provide it. > > > > > > How to go about doing any of the above is left as an exercise for the > > reader. > > > > DRC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-devel mailing list > Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
