[Nix-dev] gnutls broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> skribis:

>  > We can revisit the default to be Guile-less if it really happens to
>  > make people lives brighter. ;-)
>
> my understanding is that the Guile-part of the test suite of GNUTLS
> assumes that certain local TCP ports are free, and that this assumption
> may fail for all kinds of reasons. In other words, the GNUTLS build may
> fail spuriously when guile support is enabled. Is that understanding
> correct?

No, it’s the rest of its test suite (written in C) that has this problem.

Thanks,
Ludo’.