[Help-gnutls] Re: gnutls query-- want to suppress comnpilation of libgnutls-extra.so

[Amit kumar]

Hello Simon,

Thanks for the reply.

I do have one more query.

Does gnutls provides Transport Layer Security using SSL? 

If the answer to the above question is YES than how will this be provided in our application as we are not linking or using any API's defined in SSL library.

If the answer to the above question is NO than how does libgnutls provides security to the transport connection without using SSL?

Thanks
Amit

On 6/29/07, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:

"Amit kumar" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> Our application is providing support for TLS using gnutls library version
> 1.4.1 .

Hi and welcome!

> As we are only using functions defined in library libgnutls.so do we need
> libgnutls-extra.so.

No.

> We are not using openPGP and openSSL feature provided by
> libgnutls-extra.soand thus want to suppress the compilation of
> gnutls-extra library when
> compiling gnutls source. Is there any way to do it.

Just don't link your application against libgnutls-extra and you should
be fine.

> I have verified using ldd command that libgnutls-extra.so requires
> libgnutls.so for linking and not vice versa thus libgnutls.so library can be
> used independently.

Correct.

> I just need some information on how to avoid compilation of libgnutls-extra.
>
> An early help would be appreciated.

If you really need to avoid _compiling_ libgnutls-extra (although I
don't see why?), you could run './configure' and then invoke 'make
install' manually in lgl/, gl/, includes/, and lib/.

However, I recommend that you simply do 'make install' and then decide
when linking your application whether to use libgnutls-extra or not.

/Simon

-- 
Amit Kumar