[Csync2] latest csync2 rpmbuild failing on centos 5.4 with error: gnutls>=2.6

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 07:58:39PM +0530, Samba wrote:
> great! thanks Lars for the lightening fast response.

Well, looks like I was wrong.
It does use some functions not present in <= 2.10 (or so).

Consider to just disable ssl support:
./configure  --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-gnutls

Or, well, "fix it", and send a patch ;-)

> Regards,
> Samba
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 07:35:00PM +0530, Samba wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just pulled the latest changes of from git and tried to build the rpm
> > but
> > > faced with an error that it requires gnutls >=2.6, which looks like a
> > newly
> > > added requirement.
> > >
> > > I'm using centos-5.4 and the version of gnutls that is available on
> > centos
> > > 5 is  : 1.4.1-3
> > >
> > > I found that the latest version of gnutls (version 2.8+) is only
> > available
> > > on centos6 but unfortunately we cannot upgrade our OS to centos6 as of
> > now.
> > >
> > > What options do I have to build the csync2 rpm from latest sources on
> > > centos5? could someone provide any alternate yjum update repos where the
> > > gnutls>=2.6 is available or any other suggestions that can unblock me
> > from
> > > this stalemate?
> >
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([gnutls],
> >  if test "$enable_gnutls" != no
> >  then
> >    PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
> > -   PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBGNUTLS], [gnutls >= 2.6.0], [
> > +   PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBGNUTLS], [gnutls >= 1.4.0], [
> >       AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LIBGNUTLS], 1, [Define to 1 when using GNU TLS
> > library])
> >    ])
> >  fi
> >
> > Probably the requirement is just bogus.  It used to be >= 1.0, iirc, but at
> > some point was changed to something more recent, because the old versions
> > have
> > been said to be known buggy in some way.
> >
> > Try to get away with what you have, I see no reason why it should not work.
> >
> >
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