[bf8ac01] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[a2d8572] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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[8e2075c] | 6 |
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[248a536] | 7 | <!ENTITY curl-download-http "http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.lzma">
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[2b8421c] | 8 | <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp " ">
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[8af694bb] | 9 | <!ENTITY curl-md5sum "95df6d1ce9c970289d2997e603d6fd79">
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[0c02dcb] | 10 | <!ENTITY curl-size "2.7 MB">
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[8af694bb] | 11 | <!ENTITY curl-buildsize "43 MB (additional 8 MB for tests)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY curl-time "0.4 SBU (additional 9.2 SBU for tests, with -j4)">
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[a2d8572] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[377584f] | 15 | <sect1 id="curl" xreflabel="cURL-&curl-version;">
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[bf8ac01] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="curl.html"?>
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[dc775a26] | 17 |
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[bf8ac01] | 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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[55329727] | 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[bf8ac01] | 21 | </sect1info>
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[dc775a26] | 22 |
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[3e89149] | 23 | <title>cURL-&curl-version;</title>
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[dc775a26] | 24 |
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[bf8ac01] | 25 | <indexterm zone="curl">
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[3e89149] | 26 | <primary sortas="a-cURL">cURL</primary>
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[bf8ac01] | 27 | </indexterm>
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[dc775a26] | 28 |
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[bf8ac01] | 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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[3e89149] | 30 | <title>Introduction to cURL</title>
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[dc775a26] | 31 |
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[355495ce] | 32 | <para>
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[4fcead9] | 33 | The <application>cURL</application> package contains a utility
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[ea21196] | 34 | and a library used for transferring files with URL syntax to any of
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| 35 | the following protocols: FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP,
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| 36 | TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. Its ability to both download
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| 37 | and upload files can be incorporated into other programs to support
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| 38 | functions like streaming media.
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[355495ce] | 39 | </para>
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[dc775a26] | 40 |
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[1bea834] | 41 | &lfs77_checked; &gcc5_checked;
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[2b8421c] | 42 |
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[bf8ac01] | 43 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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[874fec7f] | 44 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[bf8ac01] | 45 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 46 | <para>
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| 47 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-http;"/>
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| 48 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 51 | <para>
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| 52 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-ftp;"/>
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| 53 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Download MD5 sum: &curl-md5sum;
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| 58 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 61 | <para>
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| 62 | Download size: &curl-size;
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| 63 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Estimated disk space required: &curl-buildsize;
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| 68 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 71 | <para>
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| 72 | Estimated build time: &curl-time;
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| 73 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 | </itemizedlist>
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[dc775a26] | 76 |
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[3e89149] | 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">cURL Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[dc775a26] | 78 |
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[355495ce] | 79 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 80 | <para role="recommended">
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| 81 | <xref linkend="cacerts"/> and
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| 82 | <xref linkend="openssl"/> or <xref linkend="gnutls"/>
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| 83 | </para>
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| 84 |
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[bf8ac01] | 85 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[355495ce] | 86 | <para role="optional">
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| 87 | <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
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| 88 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
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[fad8db2] | 89 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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[4949bda0] | 90 | <xref linkend="samba"/>,
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[fad8db2] | 91 | <ulink url="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/">c-ares</ulink>,
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| 92 | <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libmetalink/">libmetalink</ulink>,
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| 93 | <ulink url="http://www.libssh2.org">libssh2</ulink>, and
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[2ca3997] | 94 | <ulink url="http://spnego.sourceforge.net/">
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[355495ce] | 95 | SPNEGO</ulink>
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| 96 | </para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for Running the Test Suite</bridgehead>
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| 99 | <para role="optional">
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[f346a49] | 100 | <xref linkend="stunnel"/> (for the HTTPS and FTPS tests) and
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| 101 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
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[355495ce] | 102 | </para>
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[c5e7d76] | 103 |
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[061ec9d] | 104 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[355495ce] | 105 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/curl"/>
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| 106 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 107 | </sect2>
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[dc775a26] | 108 |
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[bf8ac01] | 109 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[3e89149] | 110 | <title>Installation of cURL</title>
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[dc775a26] | 111 |
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[355495ce] | 112 | <para>
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| 113 | Install <application>cURL</application> by running the following
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| 114 | commands:
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| 115 | </para>
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[dc775a26] | 116 |
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[f25b43cb] | 117 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[fdd7a91] | 118 | --disable-static \
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[b9e1a58] | 119 | --enable-threaded-resolver &&
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[bf8ac01] | 120 | make</userinput></screen>
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[dc775a26] | 121 |
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[ffa8c7f] | 122 | <!-- <para>
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[2ca3997] | 123 | Running the test suite is optional. About 2% of the tests fail. Increase
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| 124 | in test time by each failed test is about 10%. Tests SBU above was
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| 125 | obtained disabling failing tests, with:
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[355495ce] | 126 | </para>
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[dc775a26] | 127 |
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[f346a49] | 128 | <screen><userinput>cat >> tests/data/DISABLED << "EOF"
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[2ca3997] | 129 | <literal>564
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| 130 | 700
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| 131 | 701
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| 132 | 703
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| 133 | 706
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| 134 | 707
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| 135 | 708
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| 136 | 709
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| 137 | 710
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| 138 | 711
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[4949bda0] | 139 | 712</literal>
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[2ca3997] | 140 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <para>
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| 143 | and running <command>make test</command>.
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[ffa8c7f] | 144 | </para>-->
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <para>
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| 147 | To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>.
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[2ca3997] | 148 | </para>
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[f346a49] | 149 |
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[355495ce] | 150 | <para>
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| 151 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 152 | user:
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| 153 | </para>
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[dc775a26] | 154 |
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[874fec7f] | 155 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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[4949bda0] | 156 | find docs \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 -o -name \*.3 \) -exec rm {} \; &&
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[951fac10] | 157 | install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version; &&
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[ad426ac] | 158 | cp -v -R docs/* /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</userinput></screen>
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[0c02dcb] | 159 |
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| 160 | <para>
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| 161 | Simple tests to the new installed <command>curl</command>:
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| 162 | <command>curl --trace-ascii debugdump.txt http://www.example.com/</command>
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| 163 | and
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| 164 | <command>curl --trace-ascii d.txt --trace-time http://example.com/</command>.
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| 165 | Inspect the locally created trace files <filename>debugdump.txt</filename>
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| 166 | and <filename>d.txt</filename>, which contain version downloaded
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| 167 | files information, etc. One file has the time for each action logged.
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| 168 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 169 | </sect2>
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[dc775a26] | 170 |
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[bf8ac01] | 171 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 172 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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[dc775a26] | 173 |
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[c627795] | 174 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 175 | href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
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[f25b43cb] | 176 |
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[fdd7a91] | 177 | <para>
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| 178 | <parameter>--enable-threaded-resolver</parameter>: This switch enables
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| 179 | <application>cURL</application>'s builtin threaded DNS resolver.
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| 180 | </para>
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| 181 |
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[355495ce] | 182 | <para>
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| 183 | <option>--with-gssapi</option>: This parameter adds
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| 184 | <application>Kerberos 5</application> support to
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| 185 | <filename class="libraryfile">libcurl</filename>.
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| 186 | </para>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <para>
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| 189 | <option>--without-ssl --with-gnutls</option>: Use to
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| 190 | build with <application>GnuTLS</application> support
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| 191 | instead of <application>OpenSSL</application> for SSL/TLS.
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| 192 | </para>
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[b834dfc7] | 193 |
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[355495ce] | 194 | <para>
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[4949bda0] | 195 | <command>find docs \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 -o -name \*.3 \)
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| 196 | -exec rm {} \;</command>: This command removes
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[355495ce] | 197 | <filename>Makefiles</filename> and man files from the documentation
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[4949bda0] | 198 | directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.
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[355495ce] | 199 | </para>
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[32a8ca3] | 200 |
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[bf8ac01] | 201 | </sect2>
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[dc775a26] | 202 |
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[bf8ac01] | 203 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 204 | <title>Contents</title>
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[dc775a26] | 205 |
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[bf8ac01] | 206 | <segmentedlist>
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| 207 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 208 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 209 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[dc775a26] | 210 |
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[bf8ac01] | 211 | <seglistitem>
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[355495ce] | 212 | <seg>
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| 213 | curl and curl-config
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| 214 | </seg>
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| 215 | <seg>
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| 216 | libcurl.so
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| 217 | </seg>
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| 218 | <seg>
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| 219 | /usr/include/curl and
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| 220 | /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;
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| 221 | </seg>
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[bf8ac01] | 222 | </seglistitem>
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| 223 | </segmentedlist>
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[dc775a26] | 224 |
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[bf8ac01] | 225 | <variablelist>
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| 226 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 227 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 228 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[dc775a26] | 229 |
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[bf8ac01] | 230 | <varlistentry id="curl-prog">
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| 231 | <term><command>curl</command></term>
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| 232 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 233 | <para>
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| 234 | is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax.
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[32a8ca3] | 235 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 236 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-prog">
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| 237 | <primary sortas="b-curl">curl</primary>
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| 238 | </indexterm>
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| 239 | </listitem>
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| 240 | </varlistentry>
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[dc775a26] | 241 |
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[bf8ac01] | 242 | <varlistentry id="curl-config">
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| 243 | <term><command>curl-config</command></term>
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| 244 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 245 | <para>
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| 246 | prints information about the last compile, like libraries
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| 247 | linked to and prefix setting.
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| 248 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 249 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-config">
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| 250 | <primary sortas="b-curl-config">curl-config</primary>
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| 251 | </indexterm>
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| 252 | </listitem>
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| 253 | </varlistentry>
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[dc775a26] | 254 |
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[bf8ac01] | 255 | <varlistentry id="libcurl">
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[874fec7f] | 256 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcurl.so</filename></term>
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[bf8ac01] | 257 | <listitem>
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[355495ce] | 258 | <para>
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| 259 | provides the API functions required by
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| 260 | <command>curl</command> and other programs.
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| 261 | </para>
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[bf8ac01] | 262 | <indexterm zone="curl libcurl">
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[874fec7f] | 263 | <primary sortas="c-libcurl">libcurl.so</primary>
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[bf8ac01] | 264 | </indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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[355495ce] | 267 |
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[bf8ac01] | 268 | </variablelist>
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[355495ce] | 269 |
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[bf8ac01] | 270 | </sect2>
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[355495ce] | 271 |
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[f45b1953] | 272 | </sect1>
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