Re: Adopt a platform today!

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Feb 2011, at 12:25, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 22 Feb 2011, at 11:25, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 22 Feb 2011, at 01:44, David Chisnall wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 Feb 2011, at 22:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> ON FreeBSD/ia32
>>>> 
>>>> 5478 Passed tests
>>>> 18 Failed tests
>>>> 5 Skipped sets
>>>> 1 Dashed hope
>>> 
>>> On the same platform with ICU installed, I get:
>>> 
>>> 5589 Passed tests
>>> 3 Failed tests
>>> 3 Dashed hopes
>>> 1 Skipped set
>>> 
>>> The skipped test appears to be caused by a bug in configure finding OpenSSL 
>>> and then refusing to use it.
>> 
>> That sounds unlikely (as a starting point it would be good to check the test 
>> log to see what it says about the skipped set) ... but if so, please can you 
>> provide a fix for configure on that system.
> 
> The skipped set is:
> 
> Skipped set:     socket.m:172 ... NSStream SSL support
> 
> The system is FreeBSD, so it has openssl installed (part of the base system, 
> non-options).  The configure test in the SSL directory says:
> 
> checking openssl/ssl.h usability... yes
> checking openssl/ssl.h presence... yes
> checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
> checking for CRYPTO_malloc in -lcrypto... yes
> checking for main in -lsocket... no
> checking for ssl2_clear in -lssl... yes
> checking for des_setkey in -lcipher... no
> checking for CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback... no
> 
> 
> But, earlier, it said:
> 
> checking for libgnutls-config... no
> checking for libgnutls - version >= 1.4.0... no
> *** The libgnutls-config script installed by libgnutls could not be found
> *** If libtgnuls was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path.
> 
> You may not want to build base without libgnutls.
> Doing so will disable SSL support in the NSStream class.
> If you really want to build -base without TLS support,
> add --disable-tls to the configure arguments.
> configure: WARNING: Missing support for TLS functionality.
> 
> 
> So, I'm not sure what is going on here.  It looks like it's finding OpenSSL 
> but refusing to use it.  If you've got a better explanation, then let me 
> know...


Ah ... not a configure issue then ... the problem is that GNU TLS is not 
available ... there's no SSL support in NSStream without it.

If someone want's to implement/contribute OpenSSL based code to support SSL in 
NSStream, that would be nice.