7.2 commit

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Version 7.2

Daniel (30 August 2000)

- Understanding AIX is a hard task. I believe I'll never figure out why they

  solve things so differently from the other unixes. Now, I'm left with the

  AIX 4.3 run-time warnings about duplicate symbols that according to this

  article (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/405/1999/9/0/2593428/) is a

  libtool flaw. I tried the mentioned patch, although that stops the linking

  completely.

  So, if I select to ignore the ld warnings there are compiler warnings that

  fill the screen pretty bad when curl compiles. It turns out that if I want

  to '#include <arpa/inet.h>', I can get tid of the warnings by include the

  following three include files before that one:

        #include <net/if_dl.h>

        #include <sys/mbuf.h>

        #include <netinet/if_ether.h>

  Now, is it really sane to add those include files before arpa/inet.h in all

  the source files that include it?

  Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young at thewrittenword.com who gave me the AIX

  login to try everything on.

Daniel (24 August 2000)

- Jan Schmidt supplied us a new VC6 makefile for Windows as the previous one

  was not up to date but lacked several object files.

- More work on the naming.

- Albert Chin-A-Young provided a configure-check for large file support, as

  some systems seem to need that for them to work. Had to change the position

  for the config.h include file in every .c file in the libcurl dir...

- As suggested on the mailing list (by Troy Engel), I did use a --data-binary

  option instead of the messy way I've left described below. It seems to

  work. The libcurl fix remained the same as yesterday.

Daniel (23 August 2000)

- Back on the -d stripping newlines thing. The 'plain post' thing was added

  when I had no thought of that one could actually post binary data with

  it. Now, I have to add this functionality in a graceful manner and I think

  I've managed to come up with a way: '-d @file;binary' will thus post the

  file binary, exactly as its contents are. It is implemented with a new

  *setopt() option (CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE) to set the postfield size, since

  libcurl can't strlen() the data in these cases.

- Albert Chin-A-Young made some very serious efforts and all the name

  resolving problems seem to have been sorted out now on all the platforms

  that previously showed them. I'll make another release now anyday because of

        cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.curl.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/curl co .

     (now, you'll get all the latest sources downloaded into your current

        directory. Note that this does not create a directory named curl or

     directory. Note that this does NOT create a directory named curl or

     anything)

        cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.curl.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/curl logout