[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] lxc: add dependency on gnutls

Fabrice Fontaine fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 14:17:59 UTC 2016


Hello,

2016-12-18 14:22 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-
electrons.com>:

> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 12:56:25 +0100, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
> > lxc can use gnutls for various checksumming so add a dependency on it if
> > package is selected (there is no --enable-gnutls in configure)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fabrice.fontaine at orange.com>
>
> I was about to apply this... but in fact I don't see how lxc can use
> gnutls. The configure script indeed has:
>
> AC_CHECK_LIB([gnutls], [gnutls_hash_fast], [enable_gnutls=yes],
> [enable_gnutls=no])
>
> But ${enable_gnutls} is only used to print a message. In the source
> code, the gnutls related code is surrounded by HAVE_LIBGNUTLS
> conditions, but this is never defined anywhere.
>
My bad, you're completely right ... I will ask the status of gnutls to lxc
project.

>
> Bottom line, I don't see where gnutls is currently used in lxc in practice.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Petazzoni
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>

Fabrice
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