Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
> MinGW builds of cURL does not ship with curl-config unless built
> with the autoconf based build system, which is not the practice
> recommended by the documentation. MsysGit has had issues with
> binaries of that sort, so it has switched away from autoconf-based
> cURL-builds.
>
> Unfortunately, broke pushing over WebDAV on Windows, because
> http-push.c depends on cURL's multi-threaded API, which we could
> not determine the presence of any more.
>
> Since troublesome curl-versions are ancient, and not even present
> in RedHat 5, let's just assume cURL is capable instead of doing a
> non-robust check.
>
> Instead, add a check for curl_multi_init to our configure-script,
> for those on ancient system. They probably already need to do the
> configure-dance anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>

Junio,

this patch still applies, and is required on Git for Windows for
http-push to work, even after f3f11fa ("Makefile: default to -lcurl
when no CURL_CONFIG or CURLDIR").

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