Bug 67628 – dovecot fails to compile with gnutls

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ooblick 2004-10-15 01:37:04 UTC]

As described in the dovecot INSTALL guide (http://www.dovecot.org/doc/INSTALL)
"Dovecot prefers GNUTLS". The dovecot ebuild allows this by including "gnutls" in the USE flags. However attempting to build with this USE flag set causes a failure of compilation.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit /etc/make.conf to include "gnutls" in the USE flags
2. emerge dovecot


Actual Results:  
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib    
-DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/var/run/dovecot"\"     -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/sbin"\"    -O2
-march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2
-Wbad-function-cast  -c ssl-proxy-gnutls.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib    
-DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/var/run/dovecot"\"     -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/sbin"\"    -O2
-march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2
-Wbad-function-cast  -c ssl-proxy-openssl.c
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_handshake':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:279: warning: implicit declaration of function
`gnutls_handshake_get_direction'
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `initialize_state':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:301: warning: implicit declaration of function
`gnutls_cert_type_set_priority'
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_new':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:317: warning: passing arg 2 of `gnutls_transport_set_ptr'
makes pointer from integer without a cast
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_dh_parameters':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:415: warning: `gnutls_dh_params_set' is deprecated (declared
at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:81)
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `read_rsa_parameters':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:441: warning: `gnutls_rsa_params_set' is deprecated (declared
at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:76)
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_init':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:507: warning: implicit declaration of function
`gnutls_certificate_allocate_cred'
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:519: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:522: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function `ssl_proxy_deinit':
ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:544: warning: implicit declaration of function
`gnutls_certificate_free_cred'
make[3]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dovecot-0.99.10.9-r1/work/dovecot-0.99.10.9/src/login-common'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dovecot-0.99.10.9-r1/work/dovecot-0.99.10.9/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dovecot-0.99.10.9-r1/work/dovecot-0.99.10.9'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-mail/dovecot-0.99.10.9-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 71, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)


Expected Results:  
Successful compilation.

Oddly enough, dovecot insists on downgrading the version of gnutls before
attempting to build. Emerging gnutls on it's own will install
net-libs/gnutls-1.0.17. Emerging dovecot with this installed will first of all
downgrade it to net-libs/gnutls-1.0.4. This might be completely unrelated to the
above behaviour.

emerge info:

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.4.26-bytemark-uml-20040706-1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-bytemark-uml-20040706-1 i686 UML
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo-distfiles"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo"
USE="apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif
gnutls gpm gtk2 imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls
nopop3d oggvorbis pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sasl slang spell
ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2004-10-31 16:36:09 UTC]

Have you tried using .11 by any chance?  

[Comment 2 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2004-11-01 09:59:25 UTC]

It turns out that gnutls support is currently broken and likely to remain so
for quite some time according to upstream:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-November/005169.html

Removed gnutls support.

Thanks!