Re: someone to take over cURL maintenance?

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat 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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