From e32c29a09849b71cb20c964880b9be671132b7b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:50:18 +0000 Subject: libcurl: re-enable on non-MMU platforms In 9229b82d6326ea425a258b91a9f0157ef6b223b7 ('libcurl: needs MMU'), the libcurl package was disabled on non-MMU systems, due to the usage of the fork() function in the library. However, a deeper inspection reveals that fork() is only used in the implementation of NTLM, an obscure, undocumented, Microsoft specific authentication method that apparently isn't common anymore. See http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--ntlm. Therefore, this commit re-enables libcurl on non-MMU systems by explicitly disabling the NTLM support. If someone ever needs NTLM support in Buildroot's libcurl package, it will always be time to add a libcurl sub-option to enable it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- package/libcurl/Config.in | 1 - package/libcurl/libcurl.mk | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'package/libcurl') diff --git a/package/libcurl/Config.in b/package/libcurl/Config.in index 10ee0e415..1d6d08e68 100644 --- a/package/libcurl/Config.in +++ b/package/libcurl/Config.in @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL bool "libcurl" - depends on BR2_USE_MMU # Uses fork() help cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols. diff --git a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk index 38ca854b2..a631953af 100644 --- a/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk +++ b/package/libcurl/libcurl.mk @@ -10,7 +10,13 @@ LIBCURL_SITE = http://curl.haxx.se/download LIBCURL_LICENSE = ICS LIBCURL_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING LIBCURL_INSTALL_STAGING = YES -LIBCURL_CONF_OPT = --disable-verbose --disable-manual --enable-hidden-symbols + +# We disable NTLM support because it uses fork(), which doesn't work +# on non-MMU platforms. Moreover, this authentication method is +# probably almost never used. See +# http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--ntlm. +LIBCURL_CONF_OPT = --disable-verbose --disable-manual \ + --enable-hidden-symbols --disable-ntlm-wb LIBCURL_CONFIG_SCRIPTS = curl-config ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y) -- cgit v1.2.3