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Re: Crash in curl

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:33:52 -0800

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:29:24PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Andreas Volz wrote:
>> It's not so easy to replace a system component like curl on Ubuntu if not
>> included in the distribution.
>
> Oh it certainly is very easy.
>
> Build libcurl and install it somewhere brand new:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/me/test-curl-install
> make
> make install
>
> Then you rebuild your application to use the temporary install path and you
> test your application to see if the problem persists.

If your app is dynamically linking libcurl, then you can save the trouble
of even rebuilding it--just set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the location of your
alternate libcurl and run your app.

>>> Dan

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