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November 20th, 2004

Building gpgme on OS X

I just built gpgme 1.0.0. I was getting errors like

engine-gpgsm.c:866: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Well, the “assuan” directory was not being built by default. By changing the main Makefile to include “assuan”, and “gpgme/Makefile” to include assuan, everything built and “make check” worked.

These problems go away if you use gpgme 1.0.1 instead.

November 20th, 2004

Mac OS X MTU

It looks like the “en0″ and “en1″ interfaces for my Powerbook G4, which are the wired and wireless connections, respectively, have strict limits on what you can set for their MTU size.

MTU stays for “Maximum Transmission Unit.” The larger it is, the more data you can fit in a packet (of any type).

I’m looking at this to better understand MTU size and to see if I could help raise the internet MTU.

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