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| 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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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY curl-download-http "https://curl.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY curl-md5sum "8f28f7e08c91cc679a45fccf66184fbc">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY curl-size "2.5 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY curl-buildsize "42 MB (add 18 MB for tests)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY curl-time "0.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 4.1 SBU for tests (without valgrind, add 36 SBU with valgrind))">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="curl" xreflabel="cURL-&curl-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="curl.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <title>cURL-&curl-version;</title>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <indexterm zone="curl">
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| 22 | <primary sortas="a-cURL">cURL</primary>
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| 23 | </indexterm>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 26 | <title>Introduction to cURL</title>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para>
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| 29 | The <application>cURL</application> package contains an utility
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| 30 | and a library used for transferring files with URL syntax to any of
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| 31 | the following protocols: DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP,
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| 32 | HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SMB, SMBS,
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| 33 | SMTP, SMPTS, TELNET, and TFTP. Its ability to both download
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| 34 | and upload files can be incorporated into other programs to support
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| 35 | functions like streaming media.
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| 36 | </para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | &lfs120_checked;
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 41 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 42 | <listitem>
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| 43 | <para>
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| 44 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-http;"/>
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| 45 | </para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&curl-download-ftp;"/>
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| 50 | </para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>
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| 54 | Download MD5 sum: &curl-md5sum;
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| 55 | </para>
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| 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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| 58 | <para>
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| 59 | Download size: &curl-size;
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| 60 | </para>
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| 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>
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| 64 | Estimated disk space required: &curl-buildsize;
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| 65 | </para>
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| 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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| 68 | <para>
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| 69 | Estimated build time: &curl-time;
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| 70 | </para>
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| 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | </itemizedlist>
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| 73 | <!--
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| 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 75 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 76 | <listitem>
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| 77 | <para>
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| 78 | Required patch:
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| 79 | <ulink url="&patch-root;/curl-&curl-version;-function_naming-1.patch"/>
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| 80 | </para>
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| 81 | </listitem>
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| 82 | </itemizedlist>
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| 83 | -->
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">cURL Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 88 | <para role="recommended">
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| 89 | <xref linkend="libpsl"/>
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| 90 | </para>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <note>
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| 93 | <para>
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| 94 | While there is an option to build the package without libpsl, both
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| 95 | the upstream developers and the BLFS editors alike highly recommend
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| 96 | not disabling support for libpsl due to severe security implications.
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| 97 | </para>
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| 98 | </note>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended at runtime</bridgehead>
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| 101 | <para role="recommended">
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| 102 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="make-ca"/>
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| 103 | </para>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 106 | <para role="optional">
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| 107 | <xref linkend="brotli"/>,
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| 108 | <xref linkend="c-ares"/>,
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| 109 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
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| 110 | <xref linkend="libidn2"/>,
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| 111 | <xref linkend="libssh2"/>,
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| 112 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
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| 113 | <xref linkend="nghttp2"/>,
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| 114 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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| 115 | <!-- cURL implements the SMB client with own code. Samba is only
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| 116 | used for /usr/bin/ntlm_auth helper. The path is correctly
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| 117 | guessed even if Samba is not installed, so "runtime". -->
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| 118 | <xref role='runtime' linkend="samba"/>
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| 119 | (runtime, for NTLM authentication),
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| 120 | <ulink url="https://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/">gsasl</ulink>,
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| 121 | <ulink url="https://www.secureauth.com/labs/open-source-tools/impacket/">impacket</ulink>,
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| 122 | <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libmetalink/">libmetalink</ulink>,
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| 123 | <ulink url="https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/">librtmp</ulink>,
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| 124 | <ulink url="https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/">ngtcp2</ulink>,
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| 125 | <!--<ulink url="https://tls.mbed.org/">mbed TLS</ulink> (formerly known as
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| 126 | PolarSSL), and -->
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| 127 | <!-- mbedTLS/PolarSSL support was removed in 7.65.1 -->
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| 128 | <ulink url="https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche">quiche</ulink>, and
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| 129 | <ulink url="https://spnego.sourceforge.net/">SPNEGO</ulink>
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| 130 | </para>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional if Running the Test Suite</bridgehead>
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| 133 | <para role="optional">
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| 134 | <!-- stunnel is still listed in the docs as required, but 7.58.0
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| 135 | tests completed happily without it, although the test for unit1323
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| 136 | reported that the tool set in the test case does not exist - ken -->
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| 137 | <xref linkend="apache"/> and
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| 138 | <xref linkend="stunnel"/> (for the HTTPS and FTPS tests),
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| 139 | <xref linkend="openssh"/>, and
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| 140 | <xref linkend="valgrind"/> (this will slow the tests down and may cause failures.)
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| 141 | </para>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | </sect2>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 146 | <title>Installation of cURL</title>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <para>
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| 149 | Install <application>cURL</application> by running the following
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| 150 | commands:
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| 151 | </para>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 154 | --disable-static \
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| 155 | --with-openssl \
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| 156 | --enable-threaded-resolver \
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| 157 | --with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs &&
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| 158 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | <!--
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| 161 | For version 7.54.1 I got:
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| 162 | TESTDONE: 869 tests out of 869 reported OK: 100%
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| 163 | TESTDONE: 1092 tests were considered during 1080 seconds
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <para>
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| 166 | Running the test suite is optional. About 2% of the tests fail. Increase
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| 167 | in test time by each failed test is about 10%. Tests SBU above was
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| 168 | obtained disabling failing tests, with:
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| 169 | </para>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | 2017-10-29 - bdubbs
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| 172 | For version 7.56.1 I had a lot of test failures which included long
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| 173 | timeouts. Could not determine the cause of the timeouts or failures,
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| 174 | but I was missing c-ares, MIT Kerberos, ldap, samba, and the six
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| 175 | external packages.
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| 176 |
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| 177 | 2017-12-01 - bdubbs
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| 178 | Still a lot of test failures. I did have c-ares, Kerberos, and ldap
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| 179 | installed this time. Best guess is that servers are not available.
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| 180 |
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| 181 | 2018-08-01 - renodr
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| 182 | No test failures, but I didn't have any of the optional dependencies except
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| 183 | for c-ares and libidn2. I might re-run this test suite before release with
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| 184 | all of the optional deps, but right now, it isn't a priority - rather
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| 185 | the security fix is.
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| 186 | -->
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <para>
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| 189 | To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>.
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| 190 | Foure tests are known to fail due to missing files.
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| 191 | <!--One test, <filename>1477</filename>, is known to fail due to
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| 192 | a missing file in the curl tarball.--> Some tests are flaky,
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| 193 | so if some tests have failed it's possible to
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| 194 | run a test again with: <command>(cd tests; ./runtests.pl
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| 195 | <replaceable><test ID></replaceable>)</command> (the ID of
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| 196 | failed tests are shown in the <quote><computeroutput>These test cases
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| 197 | failed:</computeroutput></quote> message). If you run the tests after
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| 198 | the package has been installed, some tests may fail because the man
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| 199 | pages were deleted by the 'find' command in the installation instructions
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| 200 | below.
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| 201 | </para>
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| 202 | <!-- Two (of 857) tests
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| 203 | fail for unknown reasons, and all tests fail is valgrind is installed. Moving
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| 204 | valgrind out of $PATH is recommended if you wish to run the test suite while
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| 205 | it is installed.
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| 206 |
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| 207 | Added by Pierre for curl-7.59.0:
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| 208 | no stunnel, no valgrind, no options
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| 209 | Warning: smb server unexpectedly alive
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| 210 | Warning: dict server unexpectedly alive
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| 211 | TESTDONE: 950 tests out of 951 reported OK: 99%
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| 212 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1148
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| 213 | TESTDONE: 1189 tests were considered during 362 seconds.
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| 214 | __________
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| 215 |
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| 216 | if stunnel and valgrind are not installed, and also most options
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| 217 | (I had rtmpdump), the tests complete without problems.
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| 218 | Warning: smb server unexpectedly alive
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| 219 | Warning: dict server unexpectedly alive
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| 220 | TESTDONE: 938 tests out of 938 reported OK: 100%
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| 221 | TESTDONE: 1175 tests were considered during 355 seconds.
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| 222 | and no. I don't have smb - so commenting the rest of this:
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| 223 | To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>. Many tests
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| 224 | may fail that depend on optional dependencies that may not be installed
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| 225 | or upstream servers that may not be available, especially for tests
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| 226 | numbered 700 and above.
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| 227 | Test time may be significantly increase due to hanging tests that fail.
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| 228 | __________
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| 229 | Added by Bruce for curl-7.60.0:
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| 230 | TESTDONE: 957 tests out of 959 reported OK: 99%
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| 231 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1139 1140
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| 232 | TESTDONE: 1196 tests were considered during 1184 seconds.
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| 233 | From the logs, both appear to be ipv6 releated.
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| 234 |
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| 235 | ==========
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| 236 | Added by Douglas for curl-7.61.0:
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| 237 | TESTDONE: 961 tests out of 961 reported OK: 100%
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| 238 | TESTDONE: 1202 tests were considered during 338 seconds.
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| 239 | I only have c-ares and libidn2 installed, I will likely try before release
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| 240 | with all optional dependencies in the book installed.
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| 241 |
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| 242 | =========
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| 243 | 7.61.1 NOTE: The test suite is extremely noisy, complaining about verification errors.
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| 244 | It's possible this is due to openssl-1.1.1, BUT 79/79 tests report as 100% OK. I had
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| 245 | c-ares, libpsl, and libidn1/2 installed. - Doug
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| 246 |
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| 247 | ========
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| 248 | 7.62.0: All tests passed. libpsl, c-ares, libssh2, libidn2 installed.
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| 249 | All 1098 tests report OK.
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| 250 |
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| 251 | =======
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| 252 | Added by Douglas for curl-7.64.0:
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| 253 | TESTDONE: 1022 tests out of 1023 reported OK: 99%
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| 254 | TESTFAIL: These tests cases failed: 323
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| 255 | TESTDONE: 1235 tests were considered during 1279 seconds.
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| 256 | For dependencies, I had c-ares, gnutls, libidn2, libpsl, krb5, libssh2, nghttp2,
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| 257 | OpenLDAP, Samba, stunnel, and Valgrind installed.
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| 258 | =======
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| 259 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.64.1:
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| 260 | TESTDONE: 1022 tests out of 1025 reported OK: 99%
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| 261 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 323 1139 1140
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| 262 | TESTDONE: 1242 tests were considered during 1483 seconds
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| 263 |
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| 264 | =======
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| 265 | Added by renodr for curl-7.65.1:
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| 266 | TESTDONE: 996 tests out of 997 reported OK: 99%
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| 267 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1560
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| 268 | TESTDONE: 1249 tests were considered during 1091 seconds.
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| 269 | All dependencies except for externals installed.
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| 270 | =======
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| 271 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.65.2:
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| 272 | TESTDONE: 1034 tests out of 1036 reported OK: 99%
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| 273 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 323 1560
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| 274 | TESTDONE: 1254 tests were considered during 1362 seconds.
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| 275 | Time above does not include test build time.
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| 276 | All dependencies except for externals installed.
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| 277 | =======
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| 278 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.65.3:
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| 279 | TESTDONE: 1031 tests out of 1036 reported OK: 99%
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| 280 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 323 1139 1140 1173 1560
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| 281 | TESTDONE: 1254 tests were considered during 1364 seconds.
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| 282 |
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| 283 | The tests that fail seem to be somewhat random. What happened between
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| 284 | yesterday and today that that tests 1139 1140 1173 now fail?
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| 285 |
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| 286 | =======
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| 287 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.68.0:
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| 288 | TESTDONE: 1066 tests out of 1071 reported OK: 99%
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| 289 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 323 1139 1140 1173 1560
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| 290 | TESTDONE: 1290 tests were considered during 1515 seconds.
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| 291 |
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| 292 | =======
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| 293 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.69.0:
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| 294 | TESTDONE: 074 tests out of 1079 reported OK: 99%
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| 295 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 323 1139 1140 1173 1560
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| 296 | TESTDONE: 1320 tests were considered during 1514 seconds.
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| 297 |
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| 298 | For curl-7.69.1, 1082 tests out of 1086 reported OK. 1560 now passes.
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| 299 | 1330 tests were considered during 1528 seconds.
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| 300 |
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| 301 | ======
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| 302 | Added by renodr for curl-7.70.0:
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| 303 | TESTDONE: 1062 tests out of 1062 reported OK: 100%
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| 304 | TESTDONE: 1352 tests were considered during 1218 seconds.
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| 305 | Tests were ran with all dependencies present except for stunnel.
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| 306 | impacket only seems to add one extra test to the mix as well.
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| 307 |
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| 308 | ======
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| 309 | Added by renodr for curl-7.71.0:
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| 310 | TESTDONE: 1072 tests out of 1072 reported OK: 100%
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| 311 | TESTDONE: 1364 tests were considered during 1202 seconds.
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| 312 | Tests were run similarly to 7.70.0 - all deps except for stunnel.
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| 313 |
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| 314 | ======
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| 315 | Added by renodr for curl-7.71.1:
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| 316 | TESTDONE: 1076 tests out of 1076 reported OK: 100%
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| 317 | TESTDONE: 1368 tests were considered during 1207 seconds.
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| 318 | Tests were run similarly to 7.71.0, including impacket, but no stunnel.
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| 319 |
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| 320 | ======
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| 321 | Added by renodr for curl-7.72.0:
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| 322 | TESTDONE: 1094 tests out of 1097 reported OK: 99%
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| 323 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1700 1701 1702
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| 324 | TESTDONE: 1374 tests were considered during 1285 seconds.
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| 325 | Tests have all BLFS dependencies with the exception of stunnel;
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| 326 | and the optional impacket python module was installed.
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| 327 | Tests seem to be failing due to a missing 'nghttpx' executable
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| 328 | used to start a test server.
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| 329 |
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| 330 | ======
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| 331 | Added by renodr for curl-7.73.0:
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| 332 | TESTDONE: 1121 tests out of 1121 reported OK: 100%
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| 333 | TESTDONE: 1387 tests were considered during 1303 seconds.
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| 334 | Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed with the exception of stunnel,
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| 335 | as well as the optional impacket installed.
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| 336 |
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| 337 | ======
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| 338 | Added by renodr for curl-7.74.0:
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| 339 | TESTDONE: 1119 tests out of 1119 reported OK: 100%
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| 340 | TESTDONE: 1388 tests were considered during 1370 seconds.
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| 341 | Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed, as well as impacket.
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| 342 | stunnel not installed.
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| 343 |
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| 344 | ======
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| 345 | Added by bdubbs for curl-7.79.0:
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| 346 | TESTDONE: 1432 tests were considered during 1543 seconds.
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| 347 | TESTDONE: 1208 tests out of 1212 reported OK: 99%
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| 348 |
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| 349 | Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed but without impacket.
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| 350 |
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| 351 | ======
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| 352 | Added by plabs for curl-7.79.1:
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| 353 | TESTDONE: 1434 tests were considered during 1652 seconds.
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| 354 | TESTDONE: 1171 tests out of 1171 reported OK: 100%
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| 355 | Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed except stunnel but without impacket.
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| 356 | ====
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| 357 | bdubbs curl-7.83.0 2022-04-28
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| 358 | TESTDONE: 1497 tests were considered during 1666 seconds.
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| 359 | TESTDONE: 1252 tests out of 1256 reported OK: 99%
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| 360 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1139 1140 1173 1177
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| 361 | ====
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| 362 | Added by xry111 for curl-7.85.0 on 2022-09-01:
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| 363 | With:
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| 364 | all BLFS dependencies but stunnel installed
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| 365 | libssh2-2.10.0 patched with libssh2-1.10.0-upstream_fix-1.patch
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| 366 | with-{gssapi,libssh2} enable-threaded-resolver
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| 367 | TESTDONE: 1520 tests were considered during 508 seconds.
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| 368 | TESTDONE: 1327 tests out of 1328 reported OK: 99%
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| 369 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1459
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| 370 | It is a SCP test for bad .known_hosts file and fails because of a mismatch
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| 371 | of error codes, I don't think it indicated a serious issue.
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| 372 | [renodr] - Test results for 7.85.0 (2022-09-03), no libssh2 enabled or gssapi
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| 373 | TESTDONE: 1528 tests were considered during 2041 seconds.
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| 374 | TESTDONE: 1326 tests out of 1326 reported OK: 100%
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| 375 |
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| 376 | [renodr] - Test results for 7.87.0 (2022-12-30)
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| 377 | TESTDONE: 1559 tests were considered during 2112 seconds.
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| 378 | TESTDONE: 1342 tests out of 1342 reported OK: 100%
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| 379 | libssh2 installed and enabled
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| 380 |
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| 381 | [renodr] - Test results for 8.0.1 (2023-03-27)
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| 382 | TESTDONE: 1593 tests were considered during 4761 seconds.
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| 383 | TESTDONE: 1356 tests out of 1356 reported OK: 100%
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| 384 | All BLFS dependencies installed.
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| 385 | Note that if I move /usr/bin/valgrind to a place where it can't be found, I get
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| 386 | TESTDONE: 1593 tests were considered during 595 seconds.
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| 387 | TESTDONE: 1356 tests out of 1356 reported OK: 100%
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| 388 | It appears that every test is now run under valgrind.
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| 389 |
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| 390 | [renodr] - Test results for 8.2.1 (2023-07-26)
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| 391 | TESTDONE: 1611 tests were considered during 2129 seconds.
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| 392 | TESTDONE: 1369 tests out of 1369 reported OK: 100%
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| 393 | All BLFS dependencies installed, and run under valgrind.
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| 394 |
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| 395 | [renodr] - Test results for 8.3.0 (2023-09-14)
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| 396 | TESTDONE: 1635 tests were considered during 4068 seconds.
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| 397 | TESTDONE: 1386 tests out of 1387 reported OK: 99%
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| 398 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1474
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| 399 | All BLFS dependencies installed, and run under valgrind. Test 1474 is flaky.
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| 400 |
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| 401 | [renodr] - Test results for 8.4.0 (2023-10-11)
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| 402 | TESTDONE: 1646 tests were considered during 2290 seconds.
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| 403 | TESTDONE: 1449 tests out of 1452 reported OK: 99%
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| 404 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1474 3021 3022
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| 405 | All BLFS dependencies are installed, and the tests were run with Valgrind
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| 406 | installed as well. Test 3021 and 3022 fails due to incompatibilities with
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| 407 | our version of SSH. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/12096
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| 408 | Test 1474 is still flaky.
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| 409 |
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| 410 | [bdubbs] - Test results for 8.6.0 (2024-02-01)
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| 411 | TESTDONE: 1673 tests were considered during 395 seconds.
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| 412 | TESTDONE: 1355 tests out of 1360 reported OK: 99%
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| 413 | TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 1139 1140 1173 1177 1477
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| 414 | Run without valgrind.
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| 415 | Tests seem to looking for man pages that are missing.
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| 416 | - renodr: this is because tests were run after the man pages were deleted by
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| 417 | the find command after 'make install'
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| 418 | -->
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| 419 |
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| 420 | <para>
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| 421 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 422 | user:
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| 423 | </para>
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| 424 |
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| 425 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 426 |
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| 427 | rm -rf docs/examples/.deps &&
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| 428 |
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| 429 | find docs \( -name Makefile\* -o \
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| 430 | -name \*.1 -o \
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| 431 | -name \*.3 -o \
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| 432 | -name CMakeLists.txt \) -delete &&
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| 433 |
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| 434 | cp -v -R docs -T /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 435 |
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| 436 | <para>
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| 437 | To run some simple verification tests on the newly installed
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| 438 | <command>curl</command>, issue the following commands:
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| 439 | <command>curl --trace-ascii debugdump.txt https://www.example.com/</command>
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| 440 | and
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| 441 | <command>curl --trace-ascii d.txt --trace-time https://example.com/</command>.
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| 442 | Inspect the locally created trace files <filename>debugdump.txt</filename>
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| 443 | and <filename>d.txt</filename>, which contains version information,
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| 444 | downloaded files information, etc. One file has the time for each action logged.
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| 445 | </para>
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| 446 | </sect2>
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| 447 |
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| 448 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 449 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 450 |
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| 451 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 452 | href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
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| 453 |
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| 454 | <para>
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| 455 | <parameter>--enable-threaded-resolver</parameter>: This switch enables
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| 456 | <application>cURL</application>'s builtin threaded DNS resolver.
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| 457 | </para>
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| 458 |
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| 459 | <para>
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| 460 | <parameter>--with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs</parameter>: This
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| 461 | switch sets the location of the BLFS Certificate Authority store.
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| 462 | </para>
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| 463 |
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| 464 | <para>
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| 465 | <parameter>--with-openssl</parameter>: This parameter chooses
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| 466 | <application>OpenSSL</application> as SSL/TLS implementation.
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| 467 | This seems mandatory now.
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| 468 | </para>
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| 469 |
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| 470 | <para>
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| 471 | <option>--with-gssapi</option>: This parameter adds
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| 472 | <application>Kerberos 5</application> support to
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| 473 | <filename class="libraryfile">libcurl</filename>.
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| 474 | </para>
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| 475 |
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| 476 | <para>
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| 477 | <option>--without-ssl --with-gnutls</option>: Use this switch to
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| 478 | build with <application>GnuTLS</application> support
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| 479 | instead of <application>OpenSSL</application> for SSL/TLS.
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| 480 | </para>
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| 481 |
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| 482 | <para>
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| 483 | <option>--with-ca-bundle=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt</option>: Use
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| 484 | this switch instead of <parameter>--with-ca-path</parameter> if
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| 485 | building with <application>GnuTLS</application> support
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| 486 | instead of <application>OpenSSL</application> for SSL/TLS.
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| 487 | </para>
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| 488 |
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| 489 | <para>
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| 490 | <option>--with-libssh2</option>: This parameter adds
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| 491 | <application>SSH</application> support to cURL. This is disabled
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| 492 | by default.
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| 493 | </para>
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| 494 |
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| 495 | <para>
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| 496 | <option>--enable-ares</option>: This parameter adds
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| 497 | support for DNS resolution through the c-ares library. It overrides
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| 498 | <parameter>--enable-threaded-resolver</parameter> and is not widely
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| 499 | tested by the editors.
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| 500 | </para>
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| 501 |
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| 502 | <para>
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| 503 | <command>find docs ... -exec rm {} \;</command>: This command removes
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| 504 | <filename>Makefiles</filename> and man files from the documentation
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| 505 | directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.
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| 506 | </para>
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| 507 |
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| 508 | </sect2>
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| 509 |
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| 510 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 511 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 512 |
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| 513 | <segmentedlist>
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| 514 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 515 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 516 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 517 |
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| 518 | <seglistitem>
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| 519 | <seg>
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| 520 | curl and curl-config
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| 521 | </seg>
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| 522 | <seg>
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| 523 | libcurl.so
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| 524 | </seg>
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| 525 | <seg>
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| 526 | /usr/include/curl and
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| 527 | /usr/share/doc/curl-&curl-version;
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| 528 | </seg>
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| 529 | </seglistitem>
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| 530 | </segmentedlist>
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| 531 |
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| 532 | <variablelist>
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| 533 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 534 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 535 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 536 |
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| 537 | <varlistentry id="curl-prog">
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| 538 | <term><command>curl</command></term>
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| 539 | <listitem>
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| 540 | <para>
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| 541 | is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax
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| 542 | </para>
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| 543 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-prog">
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| 544 | <primary sortas="b-curl">curl</primary>
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| 545 | </indexterm>
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| 546 | </listitem>
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| 547 | </varlistentry>
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| 548 |
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| 549 | <varlistentry id="curl-config">
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| 550 | <term><command>curl-config</command></term>
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| 551 | <listitem>
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| 552 | <para>
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| 553 | prints information about the last compile, like libraries
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| 554 | linked to and prefix setting
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| 555 | </para>
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| 556 | <indexterm zone="curl curl-config">
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| 557 | <primary sortas="b-curl-config">curl-config</primary>
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| 558 | </indexterm>
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| 559 | </listitem>
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| 560 | </varlistentry>
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| 561 |
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| 562 | <varlistentry id="libcurl">
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| 563 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcurl.so</filename></term>
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| 564 | <listitem>
|
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| 565 | <para>
|
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| 566 | provides the API functions required by
|
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| 567 | <command>curl</command> and other programs
|
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| 568 | </para>
|
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| 569 | <indexterm zone="curl libcurl">
|
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| 570 | <primary sortas="c-libcurl">libcurl.so</primary>
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| 571 | </indexterm>
|
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| 572 | </listitem>
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| 573 | </varlistentry>
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| 574 |
|
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| 575 | </variablelist>
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| 576 |
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| 577 | </sect2>
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| 578 |
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| 579 | </sect1>
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