[Dovecot] Dovecot won't build against recent version of GnuTLS

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:46:35AM -0500, David Favor wrote:
> Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
>> Dovecot won't build against recent versions of GnuTLS. The problem starts 
>> on line 34 of src/master/ssl-init-gnutls.c, where Dovecot generates DH 
>> params using gnutls_dh_params_generate(), a function which no longer 
>> exists [replaced with gnutls_dh_params_generate2()].
>> I'd fix it myself, but the signature of the function has changed to take 
>> gnutls_dh_params_t rather than prime & generator, and I'm not keen on 
>> hacking SSL code unless I really understand what's going on. It looks like 
>> the code goes on to save & free those values.
>> I'm tracking HG and am happy to test any changes. Appreciate it if someone 
>> with more knowledge of GnuTLS and perhaps this code in particular could 
>> take a look.
>
>    Dovecot used to support both GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries, but nowadays
>    only the OpenSSL code is working.

Does anyone know how much effort would be involved in making Dovecot 
work with GNUTLS again? I need to deploy in an environment where using 
OpenSSL is not possible.

If I can get an indication of how close to a working state the existing 
code is, I might be keen to sort it out myself.

     J