Thanks for your helpful, in-depth responses!
On 11/11/21 09:51, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
For some of the other libraries, configure will check for them and use
them by default without the need for any option but then why would
configure find libraries in your setup if you don't have them and curl
can then use them?
Sorry, I may have communicated this one poorly:
I do have the libraries of course if configure finds them, but the end
users may not. If libcurl just uses them, since this is a static build
my final program won't build unless I link these other deps too, which
for many reasons I don't want to indiscriminately do. (Many libs e.g.
require credits to be added, so I would almost be guaranteed to violate
terms doing this blindly.) In overall, it seems like that would make
libcurl version upgrades a potential pain since they might suddenly add
such things and break my build unnecessarily, which is a bit sad.
If instead some --default-to-no-external-libs flag allowed a whitelist
with --with-..., then I could just enable what I checked for licensing
and credits, without worrying about an upgrade ever adding things
without an actual need just because they were found.
I hope that explains why I find a blacklist-only approach difficult to
work with. Or am I missing a better way to avoid this?
On 11/11/21 09:51, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> No, that's incorrect. A static build and a shared build both need
headers and the library itself
Given a cross install to a prefix is possible (I'm silly that I assumed
it wasn't) this was unproductive for me to have nitpicked, my apologies.
I don't know why I never realized that works, sorry about that, and
thanks for your patient responses.
But for completeness' sake:
If I remember right static libs in .a format can't link things, or am I
mixing things up? The link is done when the program is built, which
isn't in the scope of libcurl anymore. So a header only option should be
possible in theory at least. But I suppose it's not really worth
anyone's time to add it.
Regards,
ellie
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