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Configure-time requirement for gnutls is too old

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>,
 Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#32446: Configure-time requirement for gnutls is too old
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:44:04 -0400

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I'd guess that the required version in 'configure' needs to be increased.
>
> The problem is not with the minimum required version, because we have
> additional version-dependent cpp conditions in gnutls.c.  The problem
> is that we assumed these functions were available since GnuTLS 3.0.0,
> which is false.
>
> Ted, what would you propose to do with this issue?  Disable the
> relevant functionality for versions of GnuTLS that don't have these
> APIs?

I think we can keep most of the functionality: the missing APIs only
make a difference for AEAD ciphers, which are already disabled for
versions before 3.5.

[v1-0001-Fix-build-with-gnutls-versions-3.0-to-3.2-Bug-324.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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