Trying to compile GnuPG-2.1.1 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

Question

While trying to build the latest GnuPG (2.1.1 modern), my build fails when trying to link t-stringhelp. make outputs:

ld: warning: ignoring file libcommon.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): libcommon.a
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_compare_filenames", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o
  "_make_absfilename_try", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o
  "_make_filename_try", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o
  "_percent_escape", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o
  "_strconcat", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o
  "_xstrconcat", referenced from:
      _main in t-stringhelp.o

I don't know how to fix this as libcommon is part of the source, so it should build fine. When building with CFLAGS="-m64" (-arch x86_64 does nothing), I get this:

ld: warning: ignoring file ../common/libgpgrl.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): ../common/libgpgrl.a
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_gnupg_rl_initialize", referenced from:
      _main in gpg.o

I've also rebuilt all the depandancies (as I built them on Mavericks), except pinentry, as it can't find libiconv which is also installed. My configure outputs that its target is Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0), so this should work. I have also got all the latest prerequisites, tried to install everything in its own directory (--prefix=/usr/local/gnupg-2.1.1), build all the dependancies and GnuPG as 32 bits (again, fails on same error), created a separate build folder and tried to build in there, but only one thing so far has solved the error: looking at how libgpgrl.a is being built - it's only component is common/gpgrlhelp.c - so I cd'ed into g10 and tried to build gpg2, replacing ../common/libgpgrl.a with ../common/gpgrlhelp.o, the lib common.a with all of its object files, for all the libraries that didn't work. Then some programs weren't linking to libksba libgcrypt and libassuan, so I changed the Makefiles, so that they could link. I can now compile all the code well, I installed everything, but I get a new error, when I try to run gpg2:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __gcry_mpi_init
  Referenced from: /usr/local/gnupg-2.1.1/lib/libgcrypt.20.dylib
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: __gcry_mpi_init
  Referenced from: /usr/local/gnupg-2.1.1/lib/libgcrypt.20.dylib
  Expected in: flat namespace

I have everything in my path, which is:

/usr/local/gnupg-2.1.1/bin:/usr/local/gnupg-2.1.1/lib:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

I could compile GnuPG-2.0.22 on Mavericks, but no version of GnuPG builds on Yosemite.

Please help, I'm really confused.

Answer 1

Turns out I had a ranlib in /usr/local/bin/ranlib. It was broken, I don't know how it got there (I did try to build gcc at some point, it doesn't support make uninstall, so that's probably why). I just ran:

sudo mv /usr/local/ranlib /usr/local/ranlib_old

Then I just rebuilt all the dependancies, and it worked!

Answer 2

Personally, I would install homebrew, which is a one-liner pasted from their website (http://brew.sh) then do

brew install gnupg

If therw are any problems, run

brew doctor

and heed the good doctor's advice.

Answer 3

I’ve been running GnuPG 2.1 on Yosemite 10.10.2 (the latest public beta of as of this writing) for about a week and it’s been fine.

You can follow these directions for using brew tap or you can use the raw URL: brew install https://github.com/mtigas/homebrew-gpg21/raw/master/Formula/gnupg2.rb.

Note this formula installs GnuPG 2.1; not GnuPG 2.1.1, the version originally asked about. I can confirm this bug where gpg2 --refresh-keys fails with some keyservers using 2.1 (apparently fixed in 2.1.1) but it’ll get you 90% there.

It shouldn’t be hard to update the formula to install 2.1.1.

Update Someone submitted a pull request for GNuPG 2.1.1 support—I just tried it and it worked great. Short answer: brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/calebthompson/homebrew-gpg21/2.1.1/Formula/gnupg2.rb.