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Re: someone to take over cURL maintenance?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:06:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: someone to take over cURL maintenance?
- References: <6EB31774D39507408D04392F40A10B2B0168F59E@FDYEXC202.mgroupnet.com> <009d01c2cf83$fc2454a0$78d96f83@pomello>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:08:49PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Roth, Kevin P. wrote:
> > 2. cygcurl-2.dll would be available for other apps to link to
> > (though I have no idea how many, if any, are using this).
> >
> > I've found I don't use any of the cygwin-specific bits, and
> > don't really have the knowledge to keep up with it. Recently,
> > the upstream maintainer upgraded his autotools, and since then
> > it is no longer building quite right. I get an error about
> > WinMain@16 while building the DLL, during the link stage. In
> > version 7.10.2, I could get around it by re-building configure
> > and the Makefiles. But with the new 7.10.3 release (last week),
> > I can't seem to get it working again.
>
> Hmm. I'm not volunteering to maintain curl, but I did look into the
> autotools problem. I couldn't reproduce any WinMain errors. My results were:
>
> tar jxvf curl-7.10.3.tar.bz2 && cd curl-7.10.3 && ./reconf && ./configure &&
> make
> * libtool chose to build libcurl static only
Hmm, that's not exactly as it should be, isn't it?
What does the upstream curl maintainer say about it? There are a lot
of Cygwin specific settings in curl, who tested them before releasing?
Corinna
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