Re: create rpm for libcurl

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:12 PM Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 1:20:01 PM CEST surya chandrika wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:55 PM Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday, May 20, 2019 12:15:32 PM CEST surya chandrika wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:49 PM Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > Why do not you use the %configure macro as in the mentioned spec
> file?
> > > > > It should take care of setting all the prefixes.
> > > > >
> > > > > > When i install rpm, version is *upgraded to 7.64.0,* but it says
> > > > >
> > > > > *Gnutls*,
> > > > >
> > > > > > instead of* Open ssl*
> > > > >
> > > > > You should have `BuildRequires: openssl-devel` in the spec file to
> > > > > make
> > > > > sure
> > > > > that the build environment of OpenSSL is available while running
> the
> > > > > build.
> > > >
> > > > I added BuildRequires: openssl-devel` this but then also after
> > > > installing
> > > > rpm its using gnutls.
> > >
> > > `BuildRequires: openssl-devel` just makes rpmbuild check whether
> > > openssl-devel
> > > is installed _before_ the build starts. It does not affect the build
> > > itself.
> > >
> > > > According to
> > > > https://curl.haxx.se/docs/install.html
> > > > It should auto take openssl if nothing is specified. "If you have
> > > > OpenSSL
> > > > installed in the default search path for your compiler/linker, you
> don't
> > > > need to do anything special".
> > > > I have installed openssl and openssl-devel via yum install, so it
> should
> > >
> > > be
> > >
> > > > in default paths.
> > > >
> > > > Note: Am generating rpm in one host and installing rpm in another
> host.
> > >
> > > Is
> > >
> > > > there any thing else that i need to make sure so that its takes
> openssl
> > > > instead of gnutls.
> > >
> > > You need to check output of the `configure` script and possibly
> config.log
> > > to
> > > figure out why openssl is not used.
> > >
> > > It is also possible that you have successfully built curl against
> openssl
> > > but
> > > then you use a different curl executable or libcurl library than the
> ones
> > > that
> > > you have built.
> > >
> > > After installing rpm when i check ssl-backends it says *openssl* (which
> >
> > is expected), but when i check curl --version it shows *GnuTLS/3.3.29*
> > Could you please let me know why it shows different,
> >
> > --ssl-backends output the SSL backends libcurl was built to support
> >
> > /usr/share/applications/curl/bin
>
> The above location seems pretty non-standard and it violates FHS because
> the
> /usr/share directory is intended for architecture-independent data, which
> curl
> binary is definitely not:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>
> > -sh-4.2$ ls
> > curl curl-config
> > -sh-4.2$ curl-config --version
> > libcurl 7.64.0
> > *-sh-4.2$ curl-config --ssl-backends*
> > *OpenSSL*
> >
> >
> > *-sh-4.2$ curl --version*
> > curl 7.64.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.64.0 *GnuTLS/3.3.29
> *zlib/1.2.7
> > Release-Date: 2019-02-06
>
> First you need to check:
>
> 1. which executables (absolute paths) you are running and why
>
> 2. which libraries they load at run-time and why
>
> I am afraid that both the questions are out of scope of this mailing-list.
>
> You should seek advice on appropriate channels.
>

Thank you for the assistance and guidance. looks like rpm, is working.

>
> Kamil
>
>
>

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Received on 2019-05-24