[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#502558: FTBFS: fails to build when either libcurl4-*-dev is installed

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:08:15PM -0400, Stephen Depooter wrote:
> Package: gnupg
> Version: 1.4.9-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source
> 
> When either libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev is installed, the gnupg package detects a system libcurl and uses it instead of the included curl-shim.  This causes a build failure with the following error excerpt.
> 
> [snip]
> gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign   -o gpgkeys_finger gpgkeys_finger-gpgkeys_finger.o gpgkeys_finger-ksutil.o ../util/libutil.a
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../../keyserver -I../../include -I../../intl    -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -MT gpgkeys_curl-gpgkeys_curl.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/gpgkeys_curl-gpgkeys_curl.Tpo -c -o gpgkeys_curl-gpgkeys_curl.o `test -f 'gpgkeys_curl.c' || echo '../../keyserver/'`gpgkeys_curl.c
> ../../keyserver/gpgkeys_curl.c: In function 'main':
> ../../keyserver/gpgkeys_curl.c:304: error: 'typeof' applied to a bit-field
> ../../keyserver/gpgkeys_curl.c:304: error: 'typeof' applied to a bit-field

This is a known bug, and has been fixed for the upcoming 1.4.10
release.

David