On 2020-04-26 at 19:01:54, Paul Smith wrote:
> The problem appears to be that configure.ac is not using curl-config to
> obtain the correct options to link with curl.  If I run
> /other/curl/bin/curl-config --lib I get the proper flags:
> 
>   $ /other/curl/bin/curl-config --libs
>   -L/other/curl/lib -lcurl -lssl -lz -lcrypto -ldl -lpthread
> 
> If configure.ac tried to use $CURLDIR/bin/curl-config --libs to obtain
> the right linker options, then the link test for curl would work.

It doesn't surprise me that configure.ac doesn't use curl-config.  The
configure script is generally not used by the main developers in favor
of just using the makefile itself.

While we should fix that, the makefile does use curl-config, so if you
just use it with any appropriate options without running configure, it
will probably work for you.
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