> Thanks for writing the patch! At first glance I am pretty
> scared by the number of deleted lines in the original code
> :-) Are you sure they were redundant?

Pretty sure I reversed the direction of the diff. I've attached a new one.

> It will take me more time to digest the patch. But one
> simple question for now - is it going to work well when
> there is no pkg-config available on the system?

When I rename /usr/bin/pkg-config to pkg-config.off I get a configure
failure trying to use my hand-built openssl:

configure: set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to "<abs_path_to>/openssl/lib/pkgconfig"
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for CRYPTO_lock in -lcrypto... yes
checking for SSL_connect in -lssl... no
checking for ssl with RSAglue/rsaref libs in use... checking for SSL_connect
in -lssl... (cached) no
no

which is basically the same thing I got before. Looking in config.log the
reason is unresolved externs to stuff in libdl.

If I pass --with-ssl to configure to get the system stuff, configure works
fine and both libcurl and the curl executable build as well.

-DB

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