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Re: strerror.m4 test fails incorrectly on solaris 8 and earlier [and bon
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: strerror.m4 test fails incorrectly on solaris 8 and earlier [and bonus gnutls bug] |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:04:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:
> [[Simon, I'm Cc:ing you for the gnutls bug at the bottom]]
Thanks for looking into this.
> Even with the strerror detection fixed, gnutls will still create
> an unusable libgnutls.so whenever it is built on a machine that
> doesn't provide a strerror implementation natively. To fix *that*,
> we either need to distribute the gnulib strerror under lgpl so
> that gnutls can use it in it's lgpl library, or gnutls itself
> should not reference strerror... as best as I can tell, only
> cdk_strerror in opencdk/main.c calls strerror, and nothing in
> gnutls calls cdk_strerror... so removing that function is also a
> possible solution.
I cannot find any use of strerror inside the library part of GnuTLS - so
possibly this has already been fixed, did you check v2.6.0?
/Simon
Re: strerror.m4 test fails incorrectly on solaris 8 and earlier [and bonus gnutls bug], Bruno Haible, 2008/10/28