On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

> Thanks for the build tips; I've switched to trying to adapt the build
> scripts from the old debian source package, and I've got quite far, just now
> stumbling over their hacks to create alternate gnutls editions of the
> library. There's a patch that no longer applies to the source files, and
> once I hack past that I think I might get a useable build.
>
> oh don't you just love package managers? their maintainers too, of course.

On any normal debian box you can build any libcurl version from source with no
problems what-so-ever. No need for special build scripts for that.

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  / daniel.haxx.se