[Help-gnutls] GNU TLS 2.2.4 installation

[Rajitha Reddy]

Thank you Daniel.

I will try to install it on Linux now.

Thanks,
Rajitha.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor [mailto:dkg at fifthhorseman.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:50 PM
To: Rajitha Reddy
Cc: GnuTLS mailing list
Subject: Re: [Help-gnutls] GNU TLS 2.2.4 installation

On Tue 2008-11-11 17:17:57 -0500, Rajitha Reddy wrote:

> Yes, I am using Cygwin. Can I install it on linux if that's easier?

Yes, Linux would be easier!

Most GNU/Linux distributions either ship with GnuTLS packages already installed, or they are easy to fetch from the distribution's package manager.

For example, on Debian-derived distributions (such as Ubuntu), you can install the gnutls binary utilities with:

 aptitude install gnutls-bin

If you want to develop code against gnutls, you'll probably want the development libraries, which you could fetch with:

 aptitude install libgnutls-dev

There are probably similar commands/package names for redhat- or suse-based systems as well.

> ar: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory

This looks to me like a problem with path names with spaces in them.
/usr/bin/ar is looking for a file at "/cygdrive/c/Documents", though the full file is probably supposed to be somewhere inside:

 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Desktop/libgcrypt-1.2.0.tar/libgcrypt-1.2.0/libgcrypt-1.2.0/src

Can you try rebuilding the package from a directory without spaces in the path?

I'm sorry i'm not more help; i haven't had to fuss with cygwin in several years.

        --dkg