2008/10/3, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> 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.

Yep, that' s true.

Each new libcurl release carries improvements relative to previous
version. The day will come in which this nit is improved.

;-)

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