Re: [bagder/curl] 6b2770: configure: don't error out on variable confusions, ...

2013-08-05 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Yang Tse wrote: Usage of XC_CHECK_USER_FLAGS with its halting behavior from within _XC_PROG_CC was fully intentional in order to save poor souls which are not fully aware that when using autotools there are some basic autotool 'rules' that should be observed as otherwise

Compiling curl with sftp support on windows using vc9

2013-08-05 Thread Guy Sheffer
Hello all, I am new to this maillling list :) I am trying to build curl with sftp support on windows using VC9. I have got the libssh2 libarary version 1.4.1 for this in the build environment. I tried passing them as an environment variable as suggested in curls

Re: [bagder/curl] 6b2770: configure: don't error out on variable confusions, ...

2013-08-05 Thread Yang Tse
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013, Daniel Stenberg wrote: I don't think we should be strict pedants that point out _possible_ flaws and errors out on them. I'd rather have us point out the possible problems, clearly warn about them and then let the script continue and possibly still work. Or not. The user

[PATCH] A CURLINFO_XFER_STATE perhaps?

2013-08-05 Thread Daniel Stenberg
Hi, As we discussed a little while ago, we could provide a curl_easy_getinfo() option that provides the current state of the transfer the easy handle identifies. This is meant to work fine to extract really at any point during a transfer. Either from a callback when the easy interface is