[Net-ssleay-devel] Latest development

[Florian Ragwitz]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:32:17AM +1000, Mike McCauley wrote:
> Hello Florian,
> 
> I observe some problems with the latest svn:
> 
> 1. During perl Makefile.PL, I get:
> 
> *** Module::AutoInstall configuration finished.
> include inc/Module/Install/WriteAll.pm
> include inc/Module/Install/Win32.pm
> include inc/Module/Install/Fetch.pm
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>         inc/Test/More.pm
>         t/local/20_constant.t

make realclean
perl Makefile.PL
make manifest

> 2. During make, I get:
> 
> cc -c  -I/usr/include -I/usr/inc32 -Iusr/kerberos/include -D_REENTRANT 
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe 
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g   -DVERSION=\"1.30\" 
> -DXS_VERSION=\"1.30\" -fPIC 
> "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE"   SSLeay.c
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???ssleay_ctx_passwd_cb_new???:
> SSLeay.xs:208: error: syntax error before ???ssleay_ctx_passwd_cb_t???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???ssleay_ctx_cert_verify_cb_new???:
> SSLeay.xs:358: error: syntax error before ???ssleay_ctx_cert_verify_cb_t???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???ssleay_RSA_generate_key_cb_new???:
> SSLeay.xs:471: error: syntax error before ???ssleay_RSA_generate_key_cb_t???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_read???:
> SSLeay.xs:763: error: syntax error before ???char???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_peek???:
> SSLeay.xs:777: error: syntax error before ???char???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_RAND_bytes???:
> SSLeay.xs:1230: error: syntax error before ???unsigned???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_RAND_pseudo_bytes???:
> SSLeay.xs:1246: error: syntax error before ???unsigned???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_RAND_file_name???:
> SSLeay.xs:1281: error: syntax error before ???char???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID???:
> SSLeay.xs:1351: error: syntax error before ???char???
> SSLeay.xs: In function ???XS_Net__SSLeay_BIO_read???:
> SSLeay.xs:1634: error: syntax error before ???char???

That seems to be caused by the change from malloc/New to Newx. I don't
really know what's the real reason behind it. I used Newx instead of New
as New isn't documented in perlapi or somesuch. Therefor I thought it's
probably not a public function to be used in extensions. Do you have any
deeper insights in this topic?

> (BTW, that -Iusr/kerberos/include in the compiler line looks suspicious too.

Indeed. It's probably a leftover from older versions. Go ahead and
remove it. I don't know any reason why it could be required..

> 3. The list of prerequisite modules (and their prerequisites) is getting 
> longer and longer. I had to install another 5 modules this time.

Those are build requirements.

You don't really need them. They're just used in the test suite. Those
tests are automatically skiped if those modules aren't around.

On the user side no one will need to install those Test:: modules we use
as they will automatically get included in inc/ when doing `make dist',
so the test suite will run on the user side without requiring the
testing modules to be installed.


Thanks for your comments,
Flo
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