The cURL package contains a utility and a library used for transferring files with URL syntax to any of the following protocols: FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. Its ability to both download and upload files can be incorporated into other programs to support functions like streaming media.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.37.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 95c627abcf6494f5abe55effe7cd6a57
Download size: 3.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB (additional 7 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (additional 8.2 SBU for tests)
Certificate Authority Certificates and OpenSSL-1.0.1i or GnuTLS-3.3.7
libidn-1.29, MIT Kerberos V5-1.12.2, OpenLDAP-2.4.39, c-ares, libmetalink, libssh2, and SPNEGO
stunnel-5.03 (for the HTTPS and FTPS tests) and Valgrind-3.10.0
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/curl
Install cURL by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-static \ --enable-threaded-resolver && make
To test the results, issue: make test. Tests need many conditions to run successfully, and some may fail. Usually, each failed test takes a long time. If you wish to disable some tests, include them in the appropriate file and run the tests again:
cat >> tests/data/DISABLED << "EOF"
numb1
...
numbN
...
EOF
Now, as the root
user:
make install && find docs \( -name "Makefile*" -o -name "*.1" -o -name "*.3" \) -exec rm {} \; && install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-7.37.1 && cp -v -R docs/* /usr/share/doc/curl-7.37.1
--disable-static
: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-threaded-resolver
:
This switch enables cURL's builtin
threaded DNS resolver.
--with-gssapi
: This parameter adds
Kerberos 5 support to libcurl
.
--without-ssl --with-gnutls
: Use to
build with GnuTLS support instead
of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS.
find docs \( -name "Makefile*" -o
-name "*.1" -o -name "*.3" \) -exec rm {} \;: This
command removes Makefiles
and man
files from the documentation directory that would otherwise be
installed by the commands that follow.
Last updated on 2014-09-11 23:27:59 -0700