On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Saul Wold wrote:

> If the author of curl would like to review and/or implement modification for 
> OE that would be awesome, feel free to share the patches with them.

I am the maintainer of curl.

The curl patches Björn mentioned are clearly not written in way intended to be 
"upstreamable" so they cannot be accepted by the curl project and nobody has 
tried to.

This said, at least one of the patches fixes a problem that still exists 
upstream but the yocto patch [*] is made in such a hard-coded way it'd have to 
be seriously edited to get accepted. The flaw has not even been discussed with 
or mentioned to the curl project AFAICR...

So, room for improvements!

[*] = http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl/noldlibpath.patch

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