[gnutls-help] Building GnuTLS with p11-kit

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-08-09 Fabiano Sidler <gnutls-help at aliases.systohc.net> wrote:
> Hi folks!

> I'm trying to build GnuTLS with p11-kit support. While building p11-kit
> itself with the following commands

>     PREFIX=/tmp
>     P11KIT_VERSION=0.25.5
>     GNUTLS_VERSION=3.7.11

>     wget https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/releases/download/${P11KIT_VERSION}/p11-kit-${P11KIT_VERSION}.tar.xz
>     tar xf p11-kit-${P11KIT_VERSION}.tar.xz
>     cd p11-kit-${P11KIT_VERSION}
>     ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX}/gnutls --disable-trust-module
> --enable-debug=yes --without-bash-completion
>     make -j$(nproc)
>     make install
>     cd ..

> worked perfectly, building GnuTLS with
[...]

Hello,

You have installed p11-kit into a set of directories which
* are not scanned by pkgconf by default (/usr/gnutls/lib/pkgconfig/),
* whose header subdir are not in the preprocessor's default search path
  (/usr/gnutls/include) and
* whose lib subdir is neither in the compiler/linker's search-path
* nor in the runtime dynamic linker's search-path (/usr/gnutls/lib/)

One can do strange stuff like this but it is completely unrelated to
gnutls how to deal with this. (e.g. static linking, rpath, modifying the
pc file, symlink farm, ...) 

cu Andreas
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