Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32

[Robert Pluim]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> From: address@hidden (Claudio Bley)
>>> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:16:34 +0100
>>> 
>>> Please find attached a patch which makes building Emacs with GnuTLS
>>> support on Woe32 possible.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I have a few initial comments, based on reading through the patch.
>>
>>> --- lisp/gnus/starttls.el   2011-01-25 04:08:28 +0000
>>> +++ lisp/gnus/starttls.el   2011-03-06 14:57:51 +0000
>>> @@ -195,37 +195,46 @@
>>>    :type 'regexp
>>>    :group 'starttls)
>>>  
>>> +(eval-and-compile
>>> +  (when (fboundp 'gnutls-boot) (require 'gnutls)))
>>
>> Can you explain why are these fboundp calls needed?
>>
>
> Please don't install this bit of the patch.  Builtin TLS support builds
> on my platform, but doesn't actually work, so forcing it to be used
> would not be good for me.

I modify that comment: builtin TLS support works for me if I set
'trustfiles' to nil in gnutls-negotiate, instead of
"/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt", which I don't have.  What is that
file, and why do I need it all of a sudden? (builtin TLS worked fine for
me several months ago).

Thanks

Robert

PS The error message I got could be improved: "Err [-64] File not found"
is not really helpful