From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: kei@openmailbox.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-octave@gnu.org,
Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org>
Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:28:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvklxn6z.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34fdadd1e914beaada907e540cabe631@openmailbox.org> (kei@openmailbox.org's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:33:25 -0400")
kei@openmailbox.org writes:
> On 2016-08-09 14:30, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 00:00:59 +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>>>> So, we drop the optional dependency to avoid the problem.
>>>
>>> Precisely what is the optional dependency that is dropped?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> The “openssl” package (along with “cyrus-sasl”) was added as a new
>> input
>> to our “octave” package in commit
>> b7b27a8f28746a488eeee489c71053059dc5a8dc, along with the upgrade from
>> 4.0.0 to 4.0.2.
>>
>> I don’t know why this was done. Maybe Kei could shed some light on
>> this.
>>
>> ~~ Ricardo
>
> When I tried to build Octave 4.0.2, the build complained about missing
> SSL and SASL libraries. Adding gnutls as a dependency (Debian users
> are advised to use libcurl4-gnutls-dev) did not fix the issue, so I
> added OpenSSL to stop the issue.
We should investigate the reason why it failed without OpenSSL. I would
start by repeating the build attempt without OpenSSL, and looking at the
resulting config.log to see what went wrong.
> It seems to me that Octave 4.0.2 (and 4.0.3, the most recent version)
> depends on SSL for curl usage, as curl allows Octave users to issue a
> "pkg install -forge [package_name]" command to install packages from
> the Octave Forge repo. I didn't know that the licenses were
> incompatible, so now we have to name (or correctly package) the Guix
> equivalent of libcurl4-gnutls-dev.
'curl' is that package. It is built against GnuTLS.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-10 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 16:35 octave license is incompatible with openssl Alex Vong
2016-08-04 17:10 ` John Darrington
2016-08-04 17:20 ` ng0
2016-08-05 9:08 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-05 9:03 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-05 11:43 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-08-05 6:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-06 1:52 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-08 20:00 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-09 16:00 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-09 17:27 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-09 18:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-09 21:33 ` kei
2016-08-10 4:28 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-08-11 5:56 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-11 9:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 4:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 6:43 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-11 6:26 ` Mike Miller
2016-08-11 15:27 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-11 17:04 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-08-13 12:37 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-12 11:45 ` JIT compiling Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2016-08-12 15:08 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-12 16:06 ` Oliver Heimlich
2016-08-13 1:03 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-13 11:48 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-13 12:12 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-14 8:07 ` Sergei Steshenko
2016-08-14 10:21 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-08-14 20:20 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
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