Please test :)

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Aug 26 17:33:39 CEST 2009


On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:03, dshaw at JABBERWOCKY.COM said:
>
>> Alas, it does.  It pulls in the memory allocation code (xmalloc and
>> friends).  We could fairly easily make a ~ expander that doesn't use
>
> No problem anymore.  I just added a small memory allocation stub.

Great!

>> means that if a distribution builds Curl with OpenSSL, that
>> distribution must build GnuPG without Curl.  Since Curl defaults to
>> building with OpenSSL, and GnuPG-2 defaults to building with Curl,
>
> Most GPL software is bugged by this problem.  This was discussed a few
> years ago and all distros should by now know about it.  The problems  
> are
> sometimes even deeper hidden than gpl_application->openldap->openssl.
>
>> I don't know how many distros fall into this category (I do know that
>> Fedora is okay here), but any distro that follows the defaults will.
>
> Debian and thus Ubunto gets this right.

Sounds good to me.  I just don't want any distribution to get any  
grief for distributing GnuPG.

David




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