Re: parallel 3.0.0 released

[Olaf Till]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 09:30:13AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 03:57 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:36:18PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >> copyfile 
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/__exit__.oct 
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/__visglobal__.oct
> >>  /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/fload.oct 
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/fsave.oct 
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/parallel_generate_srp_data.oct
> >>  
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/parallel_interface.oct
> >>  /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/src/select.oct 
> >> /export/home/orion/fedora/octave-parallel/parallel-3.0.0/inst/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v49+
> >> /tmp/rpm/octave-parallel-3.0.0-1.fc23.x86_64/install/parallel-3.0.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v49+/parallel_generate_srp_data.oct:
> >> failed to load: 
> >> /tmp/rpm/octave-parallel-3.0.0-1.fc23.x86_64/install/parallel-3.0.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v49+/parallel_generate_srp_data.oct:
> >> undefined symbol: gnutls_srp_2048_group_prime
> >> error: called from 'doc_cache_create>create_cache' in file
> >> /usr/share/octave/3.8.2/m/help/doc_cache_create.m near line 101,
> >> column 18
> >> error: called from:
> >> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/install.m at line
> >> 243, column 5
> >> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/build.m at line 50, column 3
> >> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 516, column 7
> >> error: Bad exit status from /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.Lt6Sq7 (%build)
> >>
> >> this is with gnutls 3.3.15 or 3.4.2.  Some kind of linking issue?
> > 
> > It seems so, but I'm currently at the loss with
> > this. parallel_generate_srp_data.oct is linked with -lgnutls according
> > to your posted output, and even a not quite recent libgnutls should
> > contain the symbol gnutls_srp_2048_group_prime.
> > 
> > Can you somehow prevent parallel_generate_srp_data.oct in the tempdir
> > from being deleted and run ldd on it, to see what gnutls library shows
> > up?
> > 
> > Olaf
> > 
> 
> Okay, figured this out.  Apparently the srp code is considered patent
> encumbered and so is stripped out of Fedora's gnutls.

Thanks for checking. I've added a configure link test for this
symbol. Hope it works, did not check the negative case since I'd have
to recompile gnutls fot this ...

The potential patent issue does not make me happy, of course.

Olaf

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