bug#63280: encfs: Fails to build (test segfaults)

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>]

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Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2023-05-19 14:11:37 +0200) wrote:

> […] I copied the definition of the `encfs` package to another file,
> changed `(inputs (list attr fuse openssl tinyxml2))` to `(inputs (list attr
> fuse openssl-1.1 tinyxml2))` (i.e. `openssl -> openssl-1.1`), and the built
> succeeded and tests passed.
> 
> Please note that
> <https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/600#issuecomment-950026929> points out
> that, around 3 years after the release of EncFS v1.9.5 (the version used in
> Guix), OpenSSL v3 was still very recent, so EncFS may have never been
> thoroughly tested with it anyway.
> 
> Maybe reverting to its dependency to OpenSSL v1.1 would be a good choice
> (esp. since v1.1 still receives fixes).

I sent a patch doing that: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63593>

(Is it better to send the patch as a reply to this thread?)

Thanks!

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/

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