Hi Zelphir, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Mark, > > I took another look at the page you linked to. The issue is, that I > would like to try Guix package manager to install GNUTLS + Guile > bindings, but Guix itself has the requirement of GNUTLS + Guile > bindings. See: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html#Requirements > > So I guess I would need to somehow get GNUTLS and Guile bindings working > before getting Guix and then when I have Guix, I can probably somehow > link to the Guix installed GNUTLS and Guile bindings. > > Now I don't know where I would get the Guile bindings from. Are they > included in the releases on https://gnutls.org/ ? > As Mark has pointed out, if you use the binary installation of guix, then you can install gnutls using guix. However, I prefer to build guix from source. Therefore, I use the standard "configure, make, make install" method with appropriate CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS (I include some hardending flags[0][1]): ./configure --with-included-libtasn1 --with-included-unistring --with-guile-site-dir=/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.2 make make check make install The above works in Debian. Apart from it, you also have to build scheme-bytestructure, guile-git and guile-sqlite3 from source using the same method. Besides, it is important to keep gnutls up to date (since it is a piece of security-sensitive software). > Regards, > > Zelphir > Cheers, Alex [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening [1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/24444/what-is-the-most-hardened-set-of-options-for-gcc-compiling-c-c > On 15.11.18 08:28, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Hi Zelphir, >> >> Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I read in the docs at >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Web-Client.html that >>> Guile will dynamically make use of GNUTLS for HTTPS requests. However, I >>> don't seem to have the bindings installed. There is a link to a guide on >>> the same docs page, but the link is dead: >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/gnutls-guile/Guile-Preparations.html#Guile-Preparations >>> . More searching showed me the following: >>> >>> There seems to have been some bug which prevented some tests on Debian >>> from completing: >>> >>> Bug discussions seem to indicate the bug was fixed?: >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821457 >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805863 >>> >>> Then there is a commit removing Guile bindings from the gnutls-dev >>> package on Debian: >>> >>> https://salsa.debian.org/gnutls-team/gnutls/commit/ebb7130b47dc08311c1de2c189758a73bbaeca27#58ef006ab62b83b4bec5d81fe5b32c3b4c2d1cc2_35_35 >> If you look closely, those two bugs were "fixed" by the above commit, >> i.e. by simply disabling the Guile bindings in Debian's GnuTLS package. >> >>> Apart from that, I could not find a download link or repository of the >>> bindings, like I could for other libraries I so far used in Guile and >>> run configure make make install in it. So I do not know how to get the >>> bindings for my system, so that my Guile will be able to make requests >>> using HTTPS as well as HTTP. >> The bindings in question are not a separate package. They are built and >> installed by GnuTLS itself, unless explicitly disabled by passing >> "--disable-guile" to the GnuTLS configure script, as Debian now does. >> >>> The bindings seem to be available on GUIX: >>> >>> https://gitlab.digitalcourage.de/htgoebel/guix/commit/1dbe3a8db0a3e5a8e5f9b30e6f6a6bbfb699275b >> Note that the repository above is not the official Guix repository, but >> rather someone's personal variant. Here's the same commit in the >> official Guix repository: >> >> >> https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=1dbe3a8db0a3e5a8e5f9b30e6f6a6bbfb699275b >> >>> How can I make it work on a Xubuntu 18.04? >> Yes, an easy solution would be to install Guix on top of Xubuntu, and >> installing the 'guile' and 'gnutls' packages from Guix. Note that the >> binaries from Guix are self-contained and independent of the host >> system, in the sense that they are installed in different directories >> (within /gnu/store) and don't use any libraries from the host system, >> not even the C library. Guix installs only in /gnu, /var/guix, >> /var/log/guix, /etc/guix, ~/.config/guix, and ~/.guix-profile. You must >> set your environment variables to point within ~/.guix-profile, e.g. add >> ~/.guix-profile/bin to your PATH, to enable the use of software from >> Guix. If you'd like to try it, the instructions are here: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html >> >> Mark
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