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[GNUnet-SVN] [gnunet] branch master updated: clarify more deps
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[GNUnet-SVN] [gnunet] branch master updated: clarify more deps |
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Sun, 03 Mar 2019 22:57:47 +0100 |
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new 9804974e7 clarify more deps
9804974e7 is described below
commit 9804974e7f351b40ca89d937fe113478a8f65f3b
Author: ng0 <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Sun Mar 3 21:57:41 2019 +0000
clarify more deps
---
doc/handbook/chapters/installation.texi | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/handbook/chapters/installation.texi
b/doc/handbook/chapters/installation.texi
index ce6ae9447..0f091bb7d 100644
--- a/doc/handbook/chapters/installation.texi
+++ b/doc/handbook/chapters/installation.texi
@@ -37,13 +37,27 @@ The mandatory libraries and applications are
@item libnss
@item libunistring
@item gettext
address@hidden glibc
address@hidden glibc (read below, other libcs should work)
@item libgmp
@item gnutls
@item libcurl (has to be linked to GnuTLS) or libgnurl
@item zlib
@end itemize
+Glibc is required for certain NSS features:
+
address@hidden
+One mechanism of integrating GNS with legacy applications via NSS is
+not available if this is disabled. But applications that don't use the
+glibc for NS resolution won't work anyway with this, so little is lost
+on BSD systems.
+GNS via direct use or via the HTTP or DNS proxies is unaffected.
address@hidden example
+
+Other libcs should work, the resulting builds just don't include the
+glibc NSS specific code. One example is the build against NetBSD's libc
+as detailed in @uref{https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5605}.
+
In addition GNUnet needs one of of these three databases
@itemize @bullet
@item sqlite + libsqlite (the default, requires no further configuration)
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