[Opendnssec-user] Just getting started - configure softhsm

[Jeff MacDonald]

On 2012-03-29, at 5:14 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> 
>> Just getting started. I'm installing softhsm right now and when I typed ./configure I got this
>> 
>> checking for Botan >= v1.8.0 ... no
>> 
>> However when I run
>> 
>> rpm -qa|grep -i botan
>> 
>> I get this
>> 
>> botan-1.8.13-2.el5
>> botan-devel-1.8.13-2.el5
>> 
>> This is on CentOS 5.7 32bit.
> 
> I have noticed this on some occasions as well, usually it means
> a missing build requirement.
> 
> btw. softhsm is in epel, so you should be able to install it, but not
> in EL5, as it is simply too old. Use EL6. Apart from botan, you run into a
> missing CUnit, but most importantly, EL5 has an sqlite-3.3.x that's
> too old for softhsm and opendnssec. While it is fixable for opendnssec,
> (s/_v2//g) the pain with softhsm caused me to give up building it for EL5.
> 
> opendnssec itself is in "updates-testing" now on fedora and EL6:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711899
> 
> And you can find the rhel6 build at:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/opendnssec-1.4.0-0.a1.el6.2
> 
> Paul

My DNS server is running on centos5 and I'm not quite ready to upgrade it yet as it does a few other tasks as well. Certainly not just because some things in EPEL are not available for it yet :)