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Installed Programs:
curl and curl-config
Installed Library:
libcurl.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/curl and
/usr/share/doc/curl-7.88.1
The cURL package contains an utility and a library used for transferring files with URL syntax to any of the following protocols: DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMPTS, TELNET, and TFTP. 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 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://curl.se/download/curl-7.88.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8bea0c58428578f397471fe209fad6ab
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 150 MB (add 23 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 16 SBU for tests)
make-ca-1.12 (runtime)
Brotli-1.0.9, c-ares-1.19.0, GnuTLS-3.8.0, libidn2-2.3.4, libpsl-0.21.2, libssh2-1.10.0, MIT Kerberos V5-1.20.1, nghttp2-1.52.0, OpenLDAP-2.6.4, Samba-4.17.5, gsasl, impacket, libmetalink, librtmp, ngtcp2, quiche, and SPNEGO
stunnel-5.68 (for the HTTPS and FTPS tests) and Valgrind-3.20.0 (this will slow the tests down and may cause failures.)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/curl
Install cURL by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-openssl \
--enable-threaded-resolver \
--with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs &&
makeTo run the test suite, issue: make test. If Samba is installed, the related tests will output a message duplicated many times complaining the Python module impacket (not a part of BLFS) is missing and be skipped.
Now, as the root
user:
make install &&
rm -rf docs/examples/.deps &&
find docs \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 -o -name \*.3 \) -exec rm {} \; &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-7.88.1 &&
cp -v -R docs/* /usr/share/doc/curl-7.88.1
Simple tests to the new installed curl:
curl --trace-ascii debugdump.txt https://www.example.com/
and
curl --trace-ascii d.txt --trace-time https://example.com/.
Inspect the locally created trace files debugdump.txt
and d.txt, which contain version downloaded
files information, etc. One file has the time for each action logged.
--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-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs: This
switch sets the location of the BLFS Certificate Authority store.
--with-openssl: This parameter chooses
OpenSSL as SSL/TLS implementation.
This seems mandatory now.
--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.
--with-ca-bundle=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt: Use
this switch instead of --with-ca-path if
building with GnuTLS support
instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS.
--with-libssh2: This parameter adds
SSH support to cURL. This is disabled
by default.
--enable-ares: This parameter adds
support for DNS resolution through the c-ares library. It overrides
--enable-threaded-resolver and is not widely
tested by the editors.
find docs ... -exec rm {} \;: This command removes
Makefiles and man files from the documentation
directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.