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Eric Blake
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build: avoid -lgcrypt with newer gnutls
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951637 Newer gnutls uses nettle, rather than gcrypt, which is a lot nicer regarding initialization. Yet we were unconditionally initializing gcrypt even when gnutls wouldn't be using it, and having two crypto libraries linked into libvirt.so is pointless, but mostly harmless (it doesn't crash, but does interfere with certification efforts). There are three distinct version ranges to worry about when determining which crypto lib gnutls uses, per these gnutls mails: 2.12: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2011-03/msg00034.html 3.0: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2011-07/msg00035.html If pkg-config can prove version numbers and/or list the crypto library used for static linking, we have our proof; if not, it is safer (even if pointless) to continue to use gcrypt ourselves. * configure.ac (WITH_GNUTLS): Probe whether to add -lgcrypt, and define a witness WITH_GNUTLS_GCRYPT. * src/libvirt.c (virTLSMutexInit, virTLSMutexDestroy) (virTLSMutexLock, virTLSMutexUnlock, virTLSThreadImpl) (virGlobalInit): Honor the witness. * libvirt.spec.in (BuildRequires): Make gcrypt usage conditional, no longer needed in Fedora 19. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 6094b1ff1992e6c7c7b17a2e1a3ddbf29f7f6591)
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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