On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Yang Tse wrote:

>> But (lib)curl's configure script doesn't use this properly, does it?
>
> Certainly not. It doesn't, and old versions of one library will never 'know'
> anything about another library which is way newer.

But that's just because libcurl's configure script doesn't use pkg-config or a
c-ares-config or similar to figure out what additional libs it would need to
link with when it links with c-ares staticly.

So I would argue that it _can_ know how a future c-ares wants to get
built/linked.

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  / daniel.haxx.se