On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:08:26AM -0700, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> depcomp is part of the GNU autotools and is copied into the curl source
> tree with the ./buildconf command. Since it's not checked in to curl, it
> can't be patched there. It looks like your patch comes from a newer
> version of depcomp; the one shipped in curl releases is 6 years old.
> IIRC, the automake on the curl build server was downgraded some time ago
> to work around some kind of problem, so that's probably the reason. Perhaps
> it's time to investigate upgrading to an even newer version and see if that
> that fixes both problems.

I should also mention that if you have the GNU autotools installed on your
build machine, you can run ./buildconf in the curl source directory to
upgrade depcomp and other autotools to the versions installed on your
machine. That might be enough to get around this build problem in the
short run.

>>> Dan
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