porting gnupg to Android, is pth required?

[Alphazo]

How does this project compare to APG for Android?

http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg/
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.thialfihar.android.apg&hl=en

Thanks
Alphazo

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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> On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:28 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have not seen your previous two mails (HTML parts?), but let me give
>> you a short comment anyway:
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> Thanks for your reply.
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>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 16:09, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>>>> be a lot of work to get running on Android.  gnupg's ./configure seems
>>>>> to say that Pth is now required.  Is it possible to build gnupg without
>>
>> Pth is for a looong time a requirement for GnuPG-2.  However, there are
>> only a few users of Pth left and thus we plan to drop Pth support.
>> Instead, we will use a new library (nPth) which has a very similar
>> interface but internally uses the systems's standard trhead
>> implementaions.  That is pthreads on most Unix systems and
>> WindowsThreads on Windows.  This change will help us to solve conflicts
>> with other libraries used by GnuPG and Pth.
>>
>> There is a npth branch for GnupG which will soon be merged into master.
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> Well, I got pth built so I think it'll work.  For now I'll keep it, unless you think the Android port would be better without it.
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>>>> Well, I've gotten pth built for Android and am now stuck on OpenLDAP.
>>>> Is that absolutely required?  ;-)
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>> No, OpenLDAP is only required for the dirmngr.  However with 2.1 Dirmngr
>> is resonsible for all network access (keyservers etc.), thus eventually
>> you need to support it.  ./configure --disable-dirmngr allows to build
>> without dirmngr.
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> Ah, ok, --disable-ldap wasn't working for me.  I suppose I needed also --disable-dirmngr.  We want keyserver support for sure, and openldap is built for Android now.  Does gnupg need any of the openldap client or server programs?  I only installed the libraries.
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>>> Ah... openldap is built and gnupg's ./configure is happy with it, but
>>> now I'm getting this very odd error triggered from gl/allocsa.c with
>>> both 2.1.0beta3 and the head of master:
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>> I don't know.  You may want to check whether gnulib has updates for this
>> code.
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> Ah, ok so 'gl' stands for gnulib.  I've done quite a bit of porting, but haven't used gnulib before.  I've never seen a project that makes its own versions of system headers like alloca.h, is this behavior inherited from gnulib?
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