4.2.0 compile error on our centos-6 and centos-7 systems (gnutls related)

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Mar 10 12:35:11 MDT 2015


On Wednesday 11 March 2015 07:20:13 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 21:21 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > >From 3fa45a6301607cda2a632c0102768576db3c65a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > 
> > From: Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
> > 
> > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:14:19 +0100
> > 
> > Subject: [PATCH 3/3] s4-tls: Remove obsolete gcrypt support.
> > 
> > BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11135
> > 
> > Since GnuTLS 3.0 nettle is used instead of gcrypt.
> 
> Shouldn't this be conditional on the version of GnuTLS?

We only call one function of grcypt which we do not really have to call. 
GnuTLS should correclty initialize gcrypt if it uses it. But since quite some 
time (2010/2011) GnuTLS dropped support for gcrypt. I don't see a reason why 
we should still link against it.


	-- andreas

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