is found. This fixes an issue on Ubuntu 18 where the library is
stored in /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu and ./Config doesn't detect
it and thus reverts to using local-curl.
curl enabled but without system curl, the build could fail with
an libCURL configure error. This is is because it imported the
CURLDIR but it referred to an old UnrealIRCd directory.
Reported by The_Myth (#5106)
You should always use https://www.unrealircd.org/ for stable releases.
In case you wondered what happened with 4.0.15: that version consists
of cherry-picked / backports of the two crash fixes from this 'unreal40'
development branch. The current code simply wasn't ready yet for a
rushed security release.
First of all, system-wide curl is much preffered, but if not available
then UnrealIRCd will offer to install curl for you during ./Config.
The prompt looks the same as before but we no longer install the curl
library in ~/curl but rather in ~/unrealircd/lib (or wherever you put
your installation).
Basically, it now behaves exactly the same as c-ares, TRE and PCRE.
Downside: curl will be re-compiled each time you re-run ./Config
Upside: curl will be re-compiled each time... :D.. will thus be kept
more up to date.
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Also: complain if <curlinstall>/bin/curl-config cannot be found.
This ensures we error after ./Config rather than after the whole of
configure has been ran.
then change the default value to /usr (or similar) during ./Config and
output a warning.
We do this since system-wide cURL is under almost all circumstances
preferred as it is maintained by your OS/distro and hence receives bug
fixes and security updates on a regular basis (or should, anyway).
Experience shows that ~/curl is rarely kept up to date since "it works".
In the past, many years ago, system wide cURL did not have AsynchDNS.
Nowadays nearly all distros build cURL with some sort of AsynchDNS
which makes things much more useable.
Bram Matthys