[gnutls-dev] GnuTLS 2.0.0

[Simon Josefsson]

ludovic.courtes at laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> We are pleased to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.0.0.
>
> I am "pleased" to report the first bug.  ;-)

Whee.

> "make check" was failing on `x509-certificates.scm' because
> `x509-certificate-dn-oid' was returning a bogus string.  The issue is
> that Guile bindings were assuming that `gnutls_x509_crt_get_dn_oid ()'
> returned a null-terminated string, which is apparently not the case (we
> should improve the documentation in that respect).
>
> I'm surprised we did not catch it earlier, though.

Me too, and I can't reproduce it.  Perhaps this problem is related to
the -rpath vs libguile in /usr/local/lib discussion that probably never
were solved?  Which libgnutls.so are your libguile-gnutls libraries
linking to?

I'd like to reproduce the problem before applying the patch.

/Simon