Re: gnutls 3.0.10

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2012-02-18 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> ** command line apps: Use gnu autogen (libopts) to parse command
> line arguments and template files.
[...]

Hello,
This seems to be slightly broken:

a) If there is no local installation of autoopts-config/libopts.so
running gnutls' make install gives you /usr/lib/libopts.so.25.11.2 and
the cmdline utilities are linked against it.

b) With a local $libdir/libopts.so and autoopts-config (25.10.0) I get
a build error:
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make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls-3.0.13/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-I. -I..  -I./../gl -I./../gl -I./../lib/includes -I./../lib/includes 
-I./../extra/includes    -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 
-Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -Wall -c -o 
libcmd_serv_la-serv-args.lo `test -f 'serv-args.c' || echo './'`serv-args.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./../gl -I./../gl 
-I./../lib/includes -I./../lib/includes -I./../extra/includes -g -O2 
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security 
-Werror=format-security -Wall -c serv-args.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
.libs/libcmd_serv_la-serv-args.o
In file included from serv-args.c:49:0:
serv-args.h:62:3: error: #error option template version mismatches 
autoopts/options.h header
serv-args.h:63:3: error: unknown type name 'Choke'
serv-args.h:63:11: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' 
before '.' token
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I think the correct behavior for a) is to build and link against a
local helper library (noinst_LTLIBRARIES ...) instead of installing
a shared library to $libdir.

OTOH (b) if libopts is locally installed the respective autogenerated
files (serv-args.h) should also be regenerated instead of breaking
compilation.

I will take a look at this tomorrow. (Unless weather permits
snowboarding.)

cu andreas