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Re: [RELEASE] curl and libcurl 7.34.0 is out!

From: Petr Pisar <petr.pisar_at_atlas.cz>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:54:23 +0100

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:55:51AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> This update makes the configure script check for the SSL_VersionRangeSet
> function for NSS detection. The function was added in NSS 3.14 and hence
> attempting to build with older versions of NSS now fails (at least if
> you're looking for a build with SSL support). Was this intentional?
>
> I try to backport current releases of curl to old versions of Fedora,
> and Fedora releases 10 to 15 have NSS-based SSL using NSS 3.12.x and
> 3.13.x, which don't work with curl 7.34.0 now.
>
> If there's no intention of supporting older versions of NSS, I could
> switch these builds to OpenSSL instead but I'd rather use the same
> backend as was used by the curl supplied in those Fedora releases really.
>

I guess this change is intentional
<http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-12/0000.html> becuase NSS upstream does not
back-port fixes.

-- Petr

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