bug#28175: 26.0.50; undefined reference to `gnutls_mac_get_nonce_size'

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:11:42 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:28:32 +0200 Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch@ims.co.at> 
wrote: 
TH> I can no longer compile emacs on my opensuse 13.1 machine, due to the
TH> recent changes to the gnutls code in emacs.
TZ> ...
TH> gnutls.o: In function `Fgnutls_macs':
TH> gnutls.c:(.text+0x131f): undefined reference to `gnutls_mac_get_nonce_size'
TZ> ...
TH> According to the gnutls docs gnutls_mac_get_nonce_size is available
TH> since gnutls version 3.2. In my system 3.2.4 is installed
TZ> ...
TH> If I list the symbols of the gnutls shared library using nm -AD 
/usr/lib64/libgnutls.so, the
TH> gnutls_mac_get_nonce_size function is not in the output of this
TH> command. However, the declaration for gnutls_mac_get_nonce_size is 
contained in the gnutls
TH> header file /usr/include/gnutls/crypto.h.

TZ> Hmm. I really have no idea how to fix this, if the headers are
TZ> disagreeing with the installed library. Sorry. Maybe someone else will
TZ> have an idea--we could blacklist certain GnuTLS versions on some
TZ> platforms, but it seems like a substandard solution.

Ping... I'd like to close this if there's no resolution in sight.

Ted