Bug 90643 – [jhbuild] gnutls 2.12.14 does not build with glibc 2.16.0

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

I figured it'd be better to discuss this in a bug report than coordinating with the lists for the EFL and GTK+ ports at the same time.

glibc seems to have recently deprecated the gets() call following the C11 standard. gnutls ships with a bundled Gnulib, and the version shipped with the 2.x series fails to build after this change in glibc. The problem was fixed in Gnulib in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c807348>, which is present on gnutls 3.0.21, for example.

I don't know what's currently holding us at gnutls 2.x, so I'd like some input from you guys as to how to proceed here.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 151174 [details]
Update gnutls to 3.0.21

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=151174) [details]
> Update gnutls to 3.0.21

I briefly talked about this issue with mrobinson on IRC a few days ago, but we did not decide whether it made sense to stop building gnutls with jhbuild or not. For now, this patch just updates the gnutls version we build.

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Comment on attachment 151174 [details]
Update gnutls to 3.0.21

Attachment 151174 [details] did not pass gtk-ews (gtk):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/13164128

[Gyuyoung Kim]

Comment on attachment 151174 [details]
Update gnutls to 3.0.21

Attachment 151174 [details] did not pass efl-ews (efl):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/13045090

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 154107 [details]
Depend on nettle to hopefully build on the bots

[Gyuyoung Kim]

Comment on attachment 154107 [details]
Depend on nettle to hopefully build on the bots

Attachment 154107 [details] did not pass efl-ews (efl):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/13323713

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 154125 [details]
Do not remove libgcrypt from EFL's jhbuild.modules

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

It currently seems to fail only on Philippe's bot when building nettle:

  checking for __gmpz_getlimbn in -lgmp... no
  configure: WARNING: GNU MP not found, or not 3.1 or up, see http://gmplib.org/.
  Support for public key algorithms will be unavailable.
  checking for __gmpz_powm_sec... no

Philippe, could you check if GMP is installed there? I'd rather not include it in in jhbuild.modules.

[Philippe Normand]

I installed libgmp-dev on my EWS. I'll check the Igalia bots too.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 154335 [details]
Same patch to check if GMP is now present on the GTK bots

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 154359 [details]
Try nettle 2.4 to see if it works on Philippe's bot

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Comment on attachment 154359 [details]
Try nettle 2.4 to see if it works on Philippe's bot

Attachment 154359 [details] did not pass gtk-ews (gtk):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/13348475

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> (From update of attachment 154359 [details])
> Attachment 154359 [details] did not pass gtk-ews (gtk):
> Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/13348475

kov, can you install libgmp-dev on the bot as well?

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 155306 [details]
New approach, just remove gnutls from jhbuild.modules

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Created an attachment (id=155306) [details]
> New approach, just remove gnutls from jhbuild.modules

As we just discussed on IRC, it looks like these days it is safe to just depend on the gnutls version installed on the system. On Ubuntu systems this would require at least Precise Pangolin.

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Comment on attachment 155306 [details]
New approach, just remove gnutls from jhbuild.modules

Thanks!

[WebKit Review Bot]

Comment on attachment 155306 [details]
New approach, just remove gnutls from jhbuild.modules

Clearing flags on attachment: 155306

Committed r124094: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/124094>

[WebKit Review Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Thiago Marcos P. Santos]

For the record, I added libgnutls-dev to the list of system deps at EFLWebKit wiki.