[Net-ssleay-devel] Latest development

[Mike McCauley]

Hi Florian,

On Friday 15 September 2006 10:13, Florian Ragwitz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:56:17AM +1000, Mike McCauley wrote:
> > On Friday 15 September 2006 09:45, Florian Ragwitz wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > OK, that seems to have fixed it (though it has added a whole bunch of
> > spurious files to my MANIFEST, including emacs backup files :-)
> > Added to MANIFEST: inc/Test/NoWarnings.pm
> > Added to MANIFEST: inc/Test/Warn.pm
> > Added to MANIFEST: SSLeay.xs~
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/handle/external/10_destroy.t~
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/00_ptr_cast.t~
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/07_sslecho.t~
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/08_pipe.t~
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/20_autoload.t
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/31_rsa_generate_key.t
> > Added to MANIFEST: t/local/kwalitee.t
>
> Try to adjust MANIFEST.SKIP for those files.
>
> I think '~$' will do.
>
> Delete MANIFEST afterwards and rerun make manifest.

Yes, that works fine. Suggest you add ~$ to MANIFEST.SKIP

>
> > > > 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?
> >
> > No, I dont know anything about that. Sorry.
>
> So could you try changing the use of Newx() back to New() and see if
> that works out? For me (perl 5.8.8) New as well as Newx work well.

Replacing 
Newx( 
with 
New(0,
in SSLeay.xs
compiles and tests fine on SuSE with Perl  5.8.7 and Solaris 9 with Perl 
v5.8.5 

Cheers.

>
>
> -Flo

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