Re: How to force configure script to use curl ?

[Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>]

Hi Peff,

Thanks for a very sensible suggestion!

Philippe. 

> Le 14 févr. 2020 à 01:17, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:08:06PM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to force the configure script to error out if it does
>> not find curl (or any one of the optional dependencies that I happen
>> to need for my build?)
> 
> I don't think so. It would probably be possible for configure.ac to
> behave this way. Looking at the code, I think GIT_PARSE_WITH would have
> to record the affirmative for "--with" instead of just canceling a
> previous "--without", and then the part that does curl auto-detection
> would need to complain if it doesn't find curl at that point.
> 
> But our use of autoconf is not very extensive, and in fact most
> developers do not use it at all. If you know you want curl, you're
> better off just overriding it explicitly with the Makefile knob:
> 
>  make NO_CURL=
> 
> or:
> 
>  echo NO_CURL= >>config.mak
>  make
> 
> Either of those will override the NO_CURL setting done by the configure
> script (you can see the full list of knobs set by configure in
> config.mak.autogen).
> 
> -Peff