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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/gnutls.scm12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
index ee75e84957..d3097a6751 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
@@ -81,7 +81,17 @@ specifications.")
'(#:configure-flags
(list (string-append "--with-guile-site-dir="
(assoc-ref %outputs "out")
- "/share/guile/site/2.0"))))
+ "/share/guile/site/2.0")
+ ;; GnuTLS doesn't consult any environment variables to specify
+ ;; the location of the system-wide trust store. Instead it has a
+ ;; configure-time option. Unless specified, its configure script
+ ;; attempts to auto-detect the location by looking for common
+ ;; places in the filesystem, none of which are present in our
+ ;; chroot build environment. If not found, then no default trust
+ ;; store is used, so each program has to provide its own
+ ;; fallback, and users have to configure each program
+ ;; independently. This seems suboptimal.
+ "--with-default-trust-store-dir=/etc/ssl/certs")))
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(inputs