Re: problem using gpgme-1.8.0

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Jack:

On 12/14/2016 02:51:59 PM Wed, ostroffjh wrote:
> I just recompiled balsa against gpgme 1.8.0, and although I didn't see any build warnings or errors, it fails on launch 
> with "balsa: error while loading shared libraries: libgpgme-pthread.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such 
> file or directory"  Previously had gpgme 1.7.1.  Reverting to that version, and balsa works fine, even without 
> recompiling.  If gpgme dropped that library with the upgrade, is there some other package which should now provide it, 
> or is it something balsa needs to work around?

In gpgme versions before 1.8, the thread-safe version of the lib was libgpgme-pthread, so that is what Balsa 
links to. As of 1.8, libgpgme itself is thread-safe, so there is no -pthread variant. However, gpgme-config 
has not been taught to ignore the --thread=pthread option, which Balsa's current configure script uses, 
leading to the error you encountered.

I've pushed to master a patch to configure.ac for not using that option in versions 1.8 or later. Please see 
if it fixes your build issue.

To test the patch on Fedora 25, I upgraded gpgme to 1.8 from rawhide, which pulled in some openssl upgrades, and now 
I'm getting a bunch of "defined but not used" errors from imap-tls.c. Not sure what's going on...

Peter