Hi guys!
I tried yesterday to compile FileZilla, without success. The ./configure script fails saying LIBGNUTLS is not available.
Actually what is missing is the libgnutls-config binary, which is not included in the stock gnutls package

The 32bit version of the package contains a different version of the library, that does include the required binary. I have both installed thanks to AlienBob's multilib packages.

The thing is I can't compile it even after sourcing 32dev.sh, because it complains that the library headers (from the 64bit package) are for a different version of the library itself (coming from the 32bit package)

I'd like to compile it for 64bit, the issue seems rather stupid (just a config stuff, maybe not even a real compatibility issue), but a 32bit FileZilla would be good also, if I could get it to compile.

The easy solution seems to be to copy the include files from the 32bit package, but I'd like to know if there is a workaround available.


Thanks in advance,
Regards.

Hi AlvaroG

I don't know if this helps, but I compiled this app successfully on a fairly stock slackware 64 current back in June.
Not sure what libraries etc have changed since then

FileZilla Client
----------------

Version: 3.2.4.1

Build information:
Compiled for: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Compiled on: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Build date: 2009-06-10
Compiled with: gcc (GCC) 4.3.3
Compiler flags: -O2 -fPIC -Wall -g -fexceptions

Dependencies:
wxWidgets: 2.8.10
GnuTLS: 2.8.4

tobyl

Well, it seems that the updated package for gnutls does not include the libgnutls-config utility, while the package for Slack13 does, 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter.

The difference between original and updated packages is quite obvious:

alvaro@alvaro:~# tar tvf gnutls-2.6.6-x86_64-2.tar | grep bin
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 66264 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/gnutls-serv
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 66024 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/gnutls-cli
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1704 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/libgnutls-extra-config
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1673 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/libgnutls-config
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 18176 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/psktool
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 23696 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/srptool
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 109288 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/certtool
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 54848 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/bin/gnutls-cli-debug
-rw-r--r-- root/root 758 2009-05-23 01:37 usr/man/man3/gnutls_hex2bin.3.gz

alvaro@alvaro:~# grep bin /var/log/packages/gnutls-2.8.4-x86_64-1_slack13.0
usr/bin/
usr/bin/gnutls-cli-debug
usr/bin/certtool
usr/bin/gnutls-serv
usr/bin/gnutls-cli
usr/bin/psktool
usr/bin/srptool
usr/man/man3/gnutls_hex2bin.3.gz

So my quick 'n' dirty solution was to get back to stock Slack13 package, compile FileZilla, and only then upgrade to gnutls-2.8.4

I don't know if it is something wrong with the upgraded package, a change in gnutls source code, or what. But this way I got it working. I'd like to know which programs depend on gnutls and if any of those that I may want to compile will complain about the same thing...

Thanks for your reply, it was enough to force me to do some more research

AlvaroG,

your "quick 'n' dirty" solution work here, and I sent mail to PatrickV, maybe he found the problem and correct with a new patch for gnutls.

Earlier versions of FileZilla didnt build with gnutls-2.8.4. So this doesnt seem to be a problem with the Slackware gnutls package.
I have submitted an updated SlackBuild that should work, at least in 13.0.
I have no idea if its gonna work using multilib though.
And i am guessing it will not build in earlier Slackware versions, but you are free to try to accomplish it.