Re: Git configure with static curl is failing

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 07:47:29PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On 2020-04-26 at 19:01:54, Paul Smith wrote:
> > The problem appears to be that configure.ac is not using curl-config to
> > obtain the correct options to link with curl.  If I run
> > /other/curl/bin/curl-config --lib I get the proper flags:
> > 
> >   $ /other/curl/bin/curl-config --libs
> >   -L/other/curl/lib -lcurl -lssl -lz -lcrypto -ldl -lpthread
> > 
> > If configure.ac tried to use $CURLDIR/bin/curl-config --libs to obtain
> > the right linker options, then the link test for curl would work.
> 
> It doesn't surprise me that configure.ac doesn't use curl-config.  The
> configure script is generally not used by the main developers in favor
> of just using the makefile itself.
> 
> While we should fix that, the makefile does use curl-config, so if you
> just use it with any appropriate options without running configure, it
> will probably work for you.

Usually, yes, though it doesn't use `curl-config --cflags` properly. See
the series at [1]. What's there now, though might be enough for Paul's
case (if it's just a link-time issue).

I do think the autoconf code could do a better job of using curl-config,
along with a few other improvements. I left some thoughts in that
thread.

-Peff

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200326080540.GA2200522@coredump.intra.peff.net/