1 - We don't use the results from the test and we never did. recvfrom()
is only used by the TFTP code and it has not caused any problems.
2 - the CURL_CHECK_FUNC_RECVFROM function is extremely slow
When cross-compiling, CURL_CHECK_PKGCONFIG was checking for the cross
pkg-config using ${host}-pkg-config.
The gold standard for doing this correctly is pkg-config's own macro,
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG. However, on the assumption that you have a good
reason not to use that directly (reduced dependencies for maintainer
builds?), the behaviour of cURL's version should at least match.
PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG uses AC_PATH_TOOL, which ultimately ends up trying
${host_alias}-pkg-config; this is not quite the same as what cURL does,
and may differ because ${host} has been run through config.sub. For
instance, when cross-building to the armhf architecture on Ubuntu,
${host_alias} is arm-linux-gnueabihf while ${host} is
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf. This may also have been the cause of the
problem reported at http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-04/0224.html.
AC_PATH_TOOL is significantly simpler than cURL's current code, and
dates back to well before the current minimum of Autoconf 2.57, so let's
use it instead.
AIX sys/poll.h header file defines 'events' and 'revents' as C
preprocessor macros. Usage of these literals in libcurl's external
API was introduced in commit de24d7bd4c causing AIX build failures.
Appropriate inclusion of sys/poll.h by libcurl's external interface
fixes AIX build and usage issues while avoiding a SONAME bump.
When using Sun C compiler the preprocessor somehow inserts an extra space
in front of replaced symbol, breaking CURL_CHECK_DEF macro. To workaround
this, macro CURL_CHECK_DEF now ignores all leading whitespace in front of
symbol substitution result.
recvfrom in bionic (the android libc) deviates from POSIX and uses a
const in the 5th argument ("const struct sockaddr *") so the check now
tests for that as well.
When curl calls a function from that library then it needs to
explicitly link to the library instead of piggybacking on
libcurl's own dependency. Without this, GNU ld with the
--no-add-needed flag fails when linking (which Fedora now does
by default).
Reported by: Quanah Gibson-Mount
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2010-09/0085.html
being properly detected under certain circumstances. It had been caused by
strange behavior of pkg-config when handling PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. pkg-config
distinguishes among empty and non-existent environment variable in that case.
when cross-compiling. The key to success is then you properly setup
PKG_CONFIG_PATH before invoking configure.
I also improved how NSS is detected by trying nss-config if pkg-config isn't
present, and as a last resort just use the lib name and force the user to
setup the LIBS/LDFLAGS/CFLAGS etc properly. The previous last resort would
add a range of various libs that would almost never be quite correct.
by Daniel Black, I've now added magic to the configure script that makes it
use pkg-config to detect gnutls details as well if the existing method
(using libgnutls-config) fails. While doing this, I cleaned up and unified
the pkg-config usage when detecting openssl and nss as well.
option to specify dis(activation) of picky compiler warnings.
If option is specified, it will be honored independant of the
--(dis|en)able-debug option.
If option is not specified, it will follow --(dis|en)able-debug
setting, whose default is disabled if not specified.
supporting configure's --disable-largefile option for WIN32 targets also.
Non-configure systems which do not use config-win32.h configuration file,
and want to use the WIN32 file API, must define USE_WIN32_LARGE_FILES or
USE_WIN32_SMALL_FILES as appropriate in their own configuration files.
the names of the curl_off_t formatting string directives now become
CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T and CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_TU.
CURL_FMT_OFF_T -> CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T
CURL_FMT_OFF_TU -> CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_TU
Remove the use of an internal name for the curl_off_t formatting string directives
and use the common one available from the inside and outside of the library.
FORMAT_OFF_T -> CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T
FORMAT_OFF_TU -> CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_TU
in a set of double-quoted strings, this macro will now return an expansion which
consists of a single double-quoted string result of concatenating all of them.
Prior versions of autoconf defined _ALL_SOURCE if _AIX was defined. But,
autoconf 2.62 version of AC_AIX defines _ALL_SOURCE along with other four
preprocessor symbols no matter if the system is AIX or not. To keep the
traditional behaviour, as well as an uniform one, across autoconf versions
AC_AIX is replaced with our own internal macro.
in top Makefile.am triggered a problem that prevented aclocal from running
successfully on SunOS 5.10 with GNU m4 1.4.5 and GNU Autoconf 2.61
A tarball which reproduces mentioned problem is the one dated July-28-2008
http://cool.haxx.se/curl-daily/curl-7.19.0-20080728.tar.gz
We actually don't need all the bells and whistles that the above mechanism
provides. We only need to include our m4/reentrant.m4 file in acinclude.m4
so here we go with this simpler mechanism.
needed, and being able to define it if appropriate for further configure tests
as well as for the generated config file.
Introduced reentrant.m4 intended for our reentrant related autotools/m4 macros.
function recvfrom as a result of the info additionally logged when running on a
Solaris system.
The compiler error showed that the prototype being used on Solaris was the one
declared in line 427 of "/usr/include/sys/socket.h" as:
function(int,
pointer to void,
unsigned int,
int,
pointer to struct sockaddr,
pointer to void) returning int
finds out its return type and the types of its arguments. Added definitions
for non-configure systems config files, and introduced macro sreadfrom which
will be used on udp sockets as a recvfrom() wrapper.
some systems" (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1999181). The problem was
that the configure script did not use the _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK feature test
macro when checking monotonic clock availability. This is now fixed and the
monotonic clock will not be used unless the feature test macro is defined
with a value greater than zero indicating always supported.
enough at detecting compilation errors or at least it has been properly
configured to do so. Configuration heavily depends on this capability, so
if this compiler sanity check fails the configuration process will now fail.
