This isn't just a curl problem. I had a similar failure when trying to
install php on a Gentoo Linux system. ./configure broke with a
completely stupid message (I forget what, exactly) and when I looked in
the config.log file I found that it had failed to compile a test
program. The compile failure was due to a linkage problem with Java,
even though Blackdown Java was apparently properly installed. I
switched to Sun Java and the problem went away...

Your milage will almost certainly vary, but the config.log file is the
place to start.

Ralph Mitchell

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 smallinfinity_at_singlesphere.com wrote:
>
>
>
>>I downloaded the source, and attempted to compile on RedHat 9.0 and i got
>>this error while running the config:
>>
>>checking for sys/utime.h... no
>>checking for sys/poll.h... yes
>>checking for setjmp.h... yes
>>checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
>>checking for size_t... yes
>>checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
>>checking for off_t... yes
>>checking size of off_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (off_t), 77
>>
>>Anyone know how to get around it?
>>
>>
>
>This error happens because configure fails to run the test program it made to
>check for the off_t size. A very common reason for this failure is that the
>OpenSSL libraries were found by configure using the options you've provided
>(earlier on in one of the previous checks), but the run-time linker (ld.so)
>can't load the libraries at run-time due to lack of info (using
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH or /etc/ld.so.conf).
>
>By checking config.log for the above failure, you can see for yourself what
>kind of error configure got when it tried to find the off_t size.
>
>
>

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