Bug 338540 – net-misc/openvpn fails to build with -ssl

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Philipp 2010-09-24 11:23:27 UTC]

options.c: In function 'parse_http_proxy_fallback':
options.c:1474:33: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
options.c:1477:4: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
options.c:1478:5: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

The problem here is that the context struct is only declared in options.c.
The definition is in openvpn.h which doesn't seem to be included.

I tried the build with USE="-*" if that matters.

[Comment 1 Philipp 2010-09-24 11:24:10 UTC]

Created attachment 248504 [details, diff]
Include openvpn.h in options.c

[Comment 2 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2010-09-27 10:39:45 UTC]

This is not a problem with gcc-4.5.1, but with the -ssl flag. Can you try with ssl? It's been mailed to one of the openvpn mailing lists, so it should be fixed in some future release.

[Comment 3 Philipp 2010-09-27 12:19:17 UTC]

You are right, it works with USE=ssl, sorry about that.
Because a friend of mine still had gcc-4.4 and it worked for him, I thought of it being an issue introduced with gcc-4.5.

[Comment 4 David Butler 2011-09-10 14:06:27 UTC]

I can confirm this on 2.1.4 as well

[Comment 5 Marcin Mirosław 2011-11-18 22:02:34 UTC]

Openvpn-2.2.0 also fails to compile without ssl.

[Comment 6 RumpletonBongworth 2011-11-18 23:18:53 UTC]

Several patches were applied between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 which address this issue, among others. A version bump and a stabilisation push would be the simplest solution. Alternatively, the patches could be cherry picked and backported from here:-

http://openvpn.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openvpn/openvpn.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/v2.2.1

[Comment 7 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2012-02-16 10:51:26 UTC]

2.2.2 is in the tree.