Re: builtin curl - especially on Darwin

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

On 06/13/17 00:03, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> curl is a special case here.
> On OS X, of the tools that we make use of (via
> mk/tools/tools.Darwin.mk), curl is the only one which is linked to OpenSSL.
> We explicitly opt to use OpenSSL from pkgsrc by default on Darwin (via
> mk/platforms/Darwin.mk). In the current scenario we have a situation
> where you are making use of the system OpenSSL despite opting to prefer
> pkgsrc OpenSSL.

I forgot to include, I don't disagree that it may be better to avoid
trying to distinguish if curl is a usable version or not, because it
gets messy. I wanted to raise the point above and suggest that use of
the built-in curl should perhaps be omitted?


Sevan