Re: strerror.m4 test fails incorrectly on solaris 8 and earlier [and bonus gnutls bug]

[Simon Josefsson]

"Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> [[Simon, I'm Cc:ing you for the gnutls bug at the bottom]]

Thanks for looking into this.

> Even with the strerror detection fixed, gnutls will still create
> an unusable libgnutls.so whenever it is built on a machine that
> doesn't provide a strerror implementation natively.  To fix *that*,
> we either need to distribute the gnulib strerror under lgpl so
> that gnutls can use it in it's lgpl library, or gnutls itself
> should not reference strerror... as best as I can tell, only
> cdk_strerror in opencdk/main.c calls strerror, and nothing in
> gnutls calls cdk_strerror... so removing that function is also a
> possible solution.

I cannot find any use of strerror inside the library part of GnuTLS - so
possibly this has already been fixed, did you check v2.6.0?

/Simon