Re: GNU SASL test failures

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Simon!
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I just realized that the hydra build is using GNU GSS from the build
>> system, not the latest from git.  Do you know which version of GNU GSS
>> is installed on that system?
>
> GSS 1.0.0.  (You can see it by going to a build page, e.g.,
> <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/413115>, then clicking on the
> “Information” tab, “build-time dependencies”, “list”, and searching for
> ‘gss’.)

Ah -- I was looking for gss/shishi under 'Build inputs', what is the
difference between a build dependency and a build input?

>> And more importantly: do you know whether the system libgss was built
>> with support for GNU Shishi or not?
>
> Indeed, it was built without Shishi support (which can also be seen by
> following the procedure above and looking at the build log of GSS.)
>
> I was about to change it in Nixpkgs, but got that:
>
> ./krb5context: error while loading shared libraries: libshishi.so.0: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> FAIL: krb5context
>
> which should be fixed by adding -lshishi for ‘krb5context’ (libtool will
> add Shishi to its RUNPATH.)

Should be fixed in git now.  Could you try to enable Shishi in GSS again
(or maybe it happens automatically)?

I should be able to reproduce the problem in GNU SASL problem now
though, and it should be fixed too.

/Simon