Re: pkg/52220: pkgsrc ../security/gnutls-3.5.9 fails to build on i386

[zilog%sdf.org@localhost]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52220; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: zilog%sdf.org@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, coypu%sdf.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/52220: pkgsrc ../security/gnutls-3.5.9 fails to build on i386
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 09:27:21 -0600

 coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:25:01PM +0000, zilog%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 > >  >  This is misleading. The problem is not gnutls, but the broken
 > >  >  libhogweed.so.
 > >  >  
 > >  
 > >  Thanks for the feedback. I'm not a developer but yes, I noticed that
 > >  as well and mentioned it in the PR.  There is no libhogweed package in the pkgsrc
 > >  tree; the gnutls package imports it so I stand by my "../security/gnutls package
 > >  fails to build .." statement. Do you feel it would make sense to file a PR for
 > >  a non-existent package?
 >
 > Sorry about that.
 >
 > Hogweed seems to come from nettle, and hogweed uses GMP.
 > NetBSD comes with GMP, and I assume builtin GMP is used whenever
 > possible. NetBSD 7.99.25 is around the time netbsd was updating its toolchain to a
 > newer version, so it's possible that's the source of the problem.
 > At least that's my first guess.
 
 Thanks for the feedback.  Per coypu's reply I tried building nettle locally and that
 seems to have addressed the problems I was seeing.  Sorry if my PR seemed out of focus;
 it wasn't obvious to me where the hogweed library was coming from, only that several
 packages I had built against gnutls were no longer functioning/building.
 
 Regards,
 Jeff