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curl

  • --with-gssapi
  • --with-libssh2 (https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/10222)
  • --with-nghttp2 vs --with-nghttp3
  • --with-openssl-quic; HTTP/3 uses QUIC
  • --without-libpsl vs --with-libpsl; BLFS recommends, Daniel says many don’t use it
  • Prefer --with-ca-embed
  • Do we need curldebug?
  • symlink /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt to /etc/ssl/cert.pem
  • make install -C scripts does nothing
  • Do we need --with-random=/dev/urandom if we’re not cross-compiling?
  • make test check nonflaky
  • curl depends on cmake for brotli and c-ares on Alpine
  • libidn2 and c-ares support are enabled on Alpine for better DNS performance
  • Does musl support libidn2?
  • Do we need c-ares because musl does not support DNS lookups?
  • c-ares support is disabled on Arch: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49962
  • Disable IDN; not many websites use internationalized domain names
  • Does not support recursive downloads, metalinks and same file multiconnect for security reasons
  • Check if we need to copy scripts/cd2nroff to /usr/bin (or maybe ac_cv_path_NROFF=/usr/bin/mandoc)
  • Do we need ac_cv_path_PERL=true?

References

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