Hi! On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 09:28:35PM +0100, xrs wrote: > Hi, > > since the last changes on gnunet concerning gnurl/curl detection I have > a strange behaviour in the context of packaging gnunet for > alpine-linux. > > When building gnunet-0.19.3 with gnurl-7.72.0[2] the > process stops at detecting libcurl. (See also [1].) > ... > checking for conversation feature set to build... none > checking for curl_easy_getinfo in -lcurl-gnutls... no > checking for gawk... (cached) awk > checking for curl-config... no > checking whether libcurl is usable... no > ... > > This used to work. > > Now, when building gnunet-0.19.3 with curl-7.87.0 I get no error in the > configure phase which is strange, because I expected that gnunet would > only compile with gnurl or curl-gnutls. > ... > checking for conversation feature set to build... none > checking for curl_easy_getinfo in -lcurl-gnutls... no > checking for gawk... (cached) awk > checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config > checking for the version of libcurl... 7.87.0 > checking for libcurl >= version 7.34.0... yes > checking whether libcurl is usable... yes > checking for curl_free... yes > checking for curl/curl.h... yes > checking whether CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR is declared... yes > checking for library containing __atomic_load_8... -latomic > ... > > Right now it would be possible to package gnunet with libcurl > (OpenSSL) on alpine-linux. > > Do I misunderstand something here?
I had the same problem when updating the GNUnet build for OpenWrt. My conclusion is that gnURL has basically been abandonned as cURL now offeres a more or less decent way to detect the used TLS library at runtime and also a stable C API portable accross all TLS backends. Hence many distributions (now also including OpenWrt[1]) now offer a package called 'curl-gnutls' which basically builds libcurl with the settings previously used to build libgnurl and then uses patchelf to change the soname from 'curl' to 'curl-gnutls'. Maybe the fact that gnURL is a relict of the past should be officially announced or at least more prominently stated on the project website? [1] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/libcurl-gnutls/Makefile > > Cheers, > xrs > > [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/xrs/aports/-/jobs/972407#L425 > [2] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.17/community/x86_64/gnurl > -- > > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > | Let's encrypt mail for safer communication! | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > | | > | Here is my public key: | > | https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=F925E518CD0DEF8A | > | | > | To be sure you are talking to | > | me and not some strange Internet | > | actor in the middle ask me for | > | this fingerprint: | > | | > | 5D3F 2470 7F3B C77A D1B9 | > | EA9A F925 E518 CD0D EF8A | > | | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ >
