Its already a soft dependency. If curl isn't found all that happens is
that you can't run ./test/javascript/run after you build it.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org> wrote:
> This sparks another thought that we could have a ./configure directive
> that says --no-curl or something. Since we only need curl for purposes
> of running the developer test suite.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Arash Bizhan zadeh <aras...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to compile couch on RH enterprise. The official RH package for
>> curl is 7.15, but Couch needs 7.18. I would like to know what is the best
>> way to handle this? Is  there any specific reason that Couch depends on
>> 7.18? Can the dependency be downgraded to 7.15?
>> Can anybody advise me on how to handle this specific dependency and other
>> dependencies ( i.e Erlang) please?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -arash
>>
>
>
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