libgnutls-devel depends on missnig libtasn1.la file

libgnutls-devel depends on missnig libtasn1.la file

[Peter Ross]

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Hi,

I am attempting to build softare (GNU libmicrohttpd) with cygport on x86, but am
getting errors when it links against libgnutls:

/usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libtasn1.la: No such file or directory
libtool:   error: '/usr/lib/libtasn1.la' is not a valid libtool archive

Likely cause:

Cygwin gnutls-devel 3.2.21-1 installs /usr/lib/libgnutls.la and this file references libtasn1.la

However /usr/lib/libtasn1.la has been removed as of libtans1-devel 0.49-1.
See announce message here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-08/msg00084.html .

Could the maintainers of libgnutls-devel and libtasn1 please resolve this!

Here is my libmicrohttpd.cygport file should you need to reproduce the problem:
http://pastebin.com/raw/HTwzpbXb

-- Peter
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Re: libgnutls-devel depends on missnig libtasn1.la file

[Ken Brown]

On 12/9/2016 9:38 PM, Peter Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to build softare (GNU libmicrohttpd) with cygport on x86, but am
> getting errors when it links against libgnutls:
>
> /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libtasn1.la: No such file or directory
> libtool:   error: '/usr/lib/libtasn1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
>
> Likely cause:
>
> Cygwin gnutls-devel 3.2.21-1 installs /usr/lib/libgnutls.la and this file references libtasn1.la
>
> However /usr/lib/libtasn1.la has been removed as of libtans1-devel 0.49-1.
> See announce message here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-08/msg00084.html .
>
> Could the maintainers of libgnutls-devel and libtasn1 please resolve this!

The *.la files are gradually being phased out.  /usr/lib/libgnutls.la 
will probably be gone the next time libgnutls-devel is updated.  For 
now, you should be able to solve the problem by simply deleting it (or 
moving it out of the way).

Ken

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