Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Theo Markettos
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 10:44:54AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > Jeremy wrote: > > The pull-request for doing so is already submitted, see link below. > > The email is https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2017-05/0004.html and the > PR is https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1463 with >

Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Jeremy wrote: > The pull-request for doing so is already submitted, see link below. The email is https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2017-05/0004.html and the PR is https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1463 with

[gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml roinfo
I read, by accident last night, a post on the curl-users mailing list, a suggestion by its maintainer that RO-specific support should be removed from the source. He said: The --environment command line option has existed since April 2002 and is documented to be specifically for RISC OS

Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Lee Noar
On 04/05/17 11:11, Theo Markettos wrote: I suspect losing it won't actually affect RISC OS beyond whatever GUI it was intended for, but curious to know what that was. If necessary (not that I know anything about curl), we could just add back the missing bits in the autobuilder. Lee.

Re: [gccsdk] Building GCCSDK with modern GCC + makeinfo

2017-05-04 Thread Lee Noar
On 24/04/17 21:51, Jeffrey Lee wrote: Hi, Over the weekend I had a go at building GCCSDK on a fresh install of Lubuntu 17.04, using the default GCC + makeinfo/texinfo packages (GCC 6.3.0 & makeinfo 6.3). GCC 6.3 didn't like the version of PPL we're using (it complained about some classes which

Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Theo Markettos
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:17:16PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Theo, > > > Unfortunately the commit in curl upstream that introduced it has no > > indication of who originated it. so we're still in the dark. I > > haven't dug through the curl mailing list history though. > > I had a bit

Re: [gccsdk] RO support being removed from curl

2017-05-04 Thread Theo Markettos
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:07:25PM +0100, Lee Noar wrote: > On 04/05/17 11:11, Theo Markettos wrote: > >I suspect losing it won't actually affect RISC OS beyond whatever GUI it was > >intended for, but curious to know what that was. > > If necessary (not that I know anything about curl), we could