On Tuesday 30 November 2010 08:25:05 Vishakha Vaidya wrote:
> Yes I am talking about Curl_getaddrinfo_ex(). I am compiling the library on
> Mac and win.

Then I'll be not much helpful as I am focused mainly on Linux.

> On windows I use the vcproj, while on mac I use the configure script and
> here are the CFLAGS I set - CFLAGS="-arch i386" ./configure
> --with-ssl=$PWD/../openssl --without-zlib --without-libidn
> --without-libssh2 --without-krb4 --without-gssapi --without-spnego
> --disable-ares --enable-ipv6 --disable-static --disable-ldap
> --disable-ldaps
>
> As far as I understand, I am disabling ares, still I see a lot of thread
> trying to call Curl_getaddrinfo_ex(). What am I missing ?

Nope, it's the other way around. We use c-ares in order to avoid threading
in libcurl. c-ares makes it possible to implemente DNS lookup timeout
without using threads. But as I said, I don't know well the situation
on Mac and Win.

Kamil
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