Detail: [#1255] Incorrectly linked libcurl with when multiple versions are available

[#1255] Incorrectly linked libcurl with when multiple versions are available

Date:
2013-02-07 20:56 Priority:
3

State:
Open

Submitted by:
Hezekiah Carty (hcarty) Assigned to:
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Summary:
Incorrectly linked libcurl with when multiple versions are available

Detailed description
Found/tested on OCaml 3.12.1 64bit, RHEL 5 ocurl's configure script cuts pieces out of the 'curl-config --libs' output. This can result in linking against a different version of libcurl than the one curl-config points to. For example, if you have a system libcurl under /usr and a custom version under $HOME, curl-config --libs \| cut -d ' ' -f 2- will drop the -L$HOME/path/to/lib flag. This will cause the library to link against the system libcurl.so under /usr.

Message
Date: 2013-02-25 18:37 Sender: Hezekiah Carty A similar error occurs on CentOS 6 using the system libcurl packages. The pipe through 'cut' drops the -lcurl which breaks linking.
Date: 2013-02-07 21:13 Sender: Hezekiah Carty And a patch against the latest master to implement the change.
Date: 2013-02-07 21:01 Sender: Hezekiah Carty A local fix seems to be to drop the pipe to cut from line 9 of configure.in/line 1797 of configure (latest git revision in master as of February 2, 2013). I don't know why cut was included here originally or what other negative effects this could have for other users.

Attachments:

ocurl-configure.patch

Field	Old Value	Date	By
File Added	203: ocurl-configure.patch	2013-02-07 21:13	hcarty