[Announce] GnuPG release candidate 1.4.8

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On Nov 19, 2007 12:30 PM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:38, alon.barlev at gmail.com said:

> BTW, it would make thing much easier if the pacthes are creasted with
> description.

You are correct... I started maintaining since 1.9...
So these are older...
I will try my best to determine what happened back then.

> > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.3-keyserver.patch?rev=1.1
>
> I can't see for what this patch is good for:

Agreed.

> > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.3-selftest.patch?rev=1.1
>
> -       echo "../g10/gpg --no-options --no-greeting \
> +       echo "../g10/gpg --no-options --no-greeting --homedir . \
>               --no-secmem-warning --batch --dearmor" >>./gpg_dearmor
>         chmod 755 ./gpg_dearmor
> +       if test ! -f ./pubring.gpg; then touch -t 197001020000 ./pubring.gpg; fi
> +       if test ! -f ./secring.gpg; then touch -t 197001020000 ./secring.gpg; fi
>
> Please explain.

Will test again...
But as it seems there was a problem in using the homedir of package
management user...

>
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-crypt/gnupg/files/gnupg-1.4.6-badruman.patch?rev=1.1
>
> I can't see any problem with gpg.ru.

Will try.

> > There was also an issue with PIC:
> >     sed -i -e 's:PIC:__PIC__:' mpi/i386/mpih-{add,sub}1.S intl/relocatable.c
> >     sed -i -e 's:if PIC:ifdef __PIC__:' mpi/sparc32v8/mpih-mul{1,2}.S
>
> Please send a more detailed bug report.

As far as I tested, gcc defines __PIC__ when you use -fPIC not PIC.
Does it different at your side?

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.