pkcs1-pad self-check fails?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Wed Mar 17 11:14:02 CET 2010


Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> writes:
> 
>> No I don't. I never had. Maybe we should make this test fail when
>> datefudge is not detected?
>> Otherwise we might miss it in the future (as I missed it now).
> 
> Requiring datefudge will break builds for almost everyone, and the tool
> doesn't exist on some platforms which makes it impossible to build
> GnuTLS successfully on those platforms.  I reverted this so the test is
> just skipped if datefudge is not available.

But then the test is as good as not being there... Noone will actually
run it.  I don't find it so bad to require a program for the "make
check" to complete.







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