[Nix-dev] About -lcrypto

[Luca Bruno]

Nope. The build failure is a consequence of the fix. If package X does not
_directly_ depend on Y, then Y must not appear in build inputs, for any
reason. If the build fails, it's because some .la file is broken somewhere,
as said.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29 July 2015 at 15:38, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To everyone, it's not correct to add openssl to buildInputs or
> > propagatedBuildInputs.
> >
> > It's most probably a broken .la file in some package (like I fixed
> > recently libarchive) that is propagating -lcrypto without a proper -L
> flag.
> >
> > So please, before adding build inputs like this and then you don't have
> > any clue, at least ping someone for review.
>
> I did git bisect on the evolution-data-server build failure (for which
> I added openssl dependency to fix -lcrypto breakage, and was later
> reverted) and arrived at this:
>
> $ git show
> commit 689897088ce3e9a80edfff10866a8c05459e0c1d
> Author: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>
> Date:   Sun Jul 26 12:44:26 2015 +0200
>
>     cups: Don't depend on OpenSSL
>
>     Afaict, it doesn't use OpenSSL, just GNU/TLS.
>
> diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/cups/default.nix
> index 0018a27..bcd27d6 100644
> --- a/pkgs/misc/cups/default.nix
> +++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/default.nix
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, pam,
> openssl
> +{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, pam
>  , dbus, acl, gmp, xdg_utils
>  , libusb ? null, gnutls ? null, avahi ? null, libpaper ? null
>  }:
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
>    buildInputs = [ pkgconfig zlib libjpeg libpng libtiff libusb gnutls
> avahi libpaper ]
>      ++ optionals stdenv.isLinux [ pam dbus.libs acl xdg_utils ] ;
>
> -  propagatedBuildInputs = [ openssl gmp ];
> +  propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
>
>    configureFlags = [
>      "--localstatedir=/var"
>
>
> So it might be missing openssl dependency after all.
>
> /Bjørn
>



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