[Bug report] [gpgme]: build may fail if gnupg is not installed

[Pierre Labastie]

On Wed, 2025-07-30 at 14:57 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:23, Pierre Labastie said:
> 
> > When building gpgme, the presence of gnupg on the system is not
> > tested,
> 
> Well, it is pretty pointless to build gpgme w/o an installed GnuPG. 
> You
> would not be able to run even the most basic checks.

Thanks for the advice. If other editors agree, we'll recommend GnuPG
for building gpgme.

> 
> > There is an obvious workaround, which is to pass "--disable-gpg-
> > test"
> > to configure, but this is nowhere documented.
> 
> Hmm, ./configure --help shows:
> 
>   [...]
>   --disable-gpgconf-test  disable GPGCONF regression test
>   --disable-gpg-test      disable GPG regression test
>   --disable-gpgsm-test    disable GPGSM regression test
>   --disable-g13-test      disable G13 regression test

Yes, I meant it is not documented either that:
- GnuPG is required for the build to succeed (even if not running the
tests) without the switch
- or that the switch removes the need for GnuPG.

But I agree it is a minor point

Thanks for the answer
Pierre