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Re: someone to take over cURL maintenance?


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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?

curl-7.10.3 uses libtool-1.4.2 - I'm not surprised it didn't manage to make
a DLL.

> What does the upstream curl maintainer say about it?  There are a lot
> of Cygwin specific settings in curl, who tested them before releasing?

No idea (to both).


Max.


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