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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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On 2016-08-09 14:30, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org> writes:
>=20
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 00:00:59 +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>>> So, we drop the optional dependency to avoid the problem.
>>=20
>> Precisely what is the optional dependency that is dropped?
>>=20
>> Octave does not directly link with OpenSSL nor use any OpenSSL
>> functions. The Octave package on Debian builds with all optional
>> dependencies enabled, and the resulting binary is linked with GnuTLS.
>=20
> The =E2=80=9Copenssl=E2=80=9D package (along with =E2=80=9Ccyrus-sasl=E2=
=80=9D) was added as a new=20
> input
> to our =E2=80=9Coctave=E2=80=9D package in commit
> b7b27a8f28746a488eeee489c71053059dc5a8dc, along with the upgrade from
> 4.0.0 to 4.0.2.
>=20
> I don=E2=80=99t know why this was done.  Maybe Kei could shed some ligh=
t on
> this.
>=20
> ~~ Ricardo

When I tried to build Octave 4.0.2, the build complained about missing=20
SSL
and SASL libraries. Adding gnutls as a dependency (Debian users are=20
advised
to use libcurl4-gnutls-dev) did not fix the issue, so I added OpenSSL to
stop the issue. It seems to me that Octave 4.0.2 (and 4.0.3, the most=20
recent
version) depends on SSL for curl usage, as curl allows Octave users to=20
issue
a "pkg install -forge [package_name]" command to install packages from=20
the
Octave Forge repo. I didn't know that the licenses were incompatible, so=20
now
we have to name (or correctly package) the Guix equivalent of=20
libcurl4-gnutls-dev.