[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn' compile with gnutls

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 the mental interface of
Timo Sirainen told:

> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 01:34 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > tried to build dovecot-1.0.alpha3 with gnutls. The build stops
> > something like:
> > ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:420: warning: 'gnutls_dh_params_set' is \
> > deprecated (declared at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82)
> > ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function 'read_rsa_parameters': \
> > ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:446: warning: 'gnutls_rsa_params_set' is \
> > deprecated (declared at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77)
> > make[4]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1
> 
> Well, it should have said instead:
> 
> #error broken currently
> 
> The code is basically in need of a rewrite. Very low priority for
> myself.

Its a matter of licence. GNUTLS is LGPL'd wich make it much easier
to add it to GPL'd programs like i.e. curl. There is a discussion on
debian-devel, wher many developers want to make GNUTLS the default
and wipe out openssl. The licence of dovecot allows to use the
openssl licence though.

*/ just for info
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
*/

> > Building with openssl 0.9.8 there are connection errors:
> > 
> > dovecot: Oct 15 22:46:48 Error: imap-login: Can't load certificate \
> > file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support \
> > routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library
> 
> I don't really know about this. Looks like OpenSSL 0.9.8 does something
> weird. Or maybe it's just Debian's bug?
Og course it is.

Thanks
Elimar
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