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Re: multilib (Re: [Survey] What people want us to do next)

From: Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro_at_ghedini.me>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:08:50 +0200

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:29:18PM +0200, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:53:08PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > I'm thinking one way to fix this problem with this particular header
> > file - and get back to a single unified header for all systems, is to
> > use the curlbuild.h.dist file and just rename that to curlbuild.h.
> > (and remove curlbuild.h.in)
>
> This will work for the common systems, but will likely fail on some obscure
> one that currently work because autoconf figures out the right values.
> Distros or users who want to can already replace the autoconf-generated
> curlbuild.h file with curlbuild.h.dist one today.

It'd be easier if curlbuild.h.dist was available in the source tarball though.
Having a (non default?) configure option to install it instead of the one
generated from curlbuild.h.in would be pretty neat too.

Cheers

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Received on 2014-06-16