See CVS commit comment on tests/testcurl.pl revision 1.63

CVS checked out curlbuild.h.dist as curlbuild.h for any non-configure target
when host system is not running buildconf.bat.

All the curlbuild.h stuff was done taking in consideration that no adjustment
would be needed in non-configure makefiles.

As it is documented, when trying to build on non-configure capable systems or on
systems which for any reason don't run the true configure script, it is required
to have the proper curlbuild.h in place before calling any makefile.

Due to the hardcore memory debugging stuff c-ares enabled debug builds also need
the file in the proper place before attempting to build c-ares.

Netware's autobuilds gcc can not been told apart from a standard built gcc.

request to prematurely end.

Guenter Knauf in lib/Makefile.netware is enough to get the netware autobuilds
going again.

for non-configure targets when host system doesn't run buildconf.bat.

away our CVS checked 'missing' file and also CVS checked 'hiper/Makefile'.

in a set of double-quoted strings, this macro will now return an expansion which
consists of a single double-quoted string result of concatenating all of them.

to have a curl_off_t data type no longer gated to off_t.

  curl_multi_socket()
- don't claim that it has an argument named 'easy' because it doesn't!

Avoid dot notation in aclocal serial file number, use a single number now.

Rebooting the problematic system, releasing allocated memory and swap,
has allowed buildconf and configure to complete sucessfully since then.

Validate that aclocal and automake versions match.

Improve removal of previous run generated files.

Remove verbose debug logging of aclocal on Solaris.

  connection with the multi interface even if a previous use of it caused a
  CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION to get returned. I now make sure that failed
  SSL connections properly close the connections.

  proved how PUT and POST with a redirect could lead to a "hang" due to the
  data stream not being rewound properly when it had to in order to get sent
  properly (again) to the subsequent URL. This is now fixed and these test
  cases are no longer disabled.

  The symptom:
  * Users (usually, but not always) on 2-Wire routers and the Comcast service
  and a wired connection to their router would find that the second and
  subsequent DNS lookups from fresh processes using c-ares to resolve the same
  address would cause the process to never see a reply (it keeps polling for
  around 1m15s before giving up).

  The repro:
  * On such a machine (and yeah, it took us a lot of QA to find the systems
  that reproduce such a specific problem!), do 'ahost www.secondlife.com',
  then do it again.  The first process's lookup will work, subsequent lookups
  will time-out and fail.

  The cause:
  * init_id_key() was calling randomize_key() *before* it initialized
  key->state, meaning that the randomness generated by randomize_key() is
  immediately overwritten with deterministic values. (/dev/urandom was also
  being read incorrectly in the c-ares version we were using, but this was
  fixed in a later version.)
  * This makes the stream of generated query-IDs from any new c-ares process
  be an identical and predictable sequence of IDs.
  * This makes the 2-Wire's default built-in DNS server detect these queries
  as probable-duplicates and (erroneously) not respond at all.

Third version of the patch fixing a failure to chose a proper data
type submitted to the mailing list 2008-08-04.

Prior versions of autoconf defined _ALL_SOURCE if _AIX was defined. But,
autoconf 2.62 version of AC_AIX defines _ALL_SOURCE along with other four
preprocessor symbols no matter if the system is AIX or not. To keep the
traditional behaviour, as well as an uniform one, across autoconf versions
AC_AIX is replaced with our own internal macro.

  with -C - sent garbage in the Content-Range: header. I fixed this problem by
  making sure libcurl always sets the size of the _entire_ upload if an app
  attemps to do resumed uploads since libcurl simply cannot know the size of
  what is currently at the server end. Test 1041 is no longer disabled.

Rebooting the Solaris system, releasing allocated memory and swap,
has allowed buildconf and configure to complete sucessfully. Further
tests on the system might allow determination of the problem origin.
Solaris AutoBuilds suceeded on August 2 and 3.

when we have been doing this since revision 1.47 of configure.ac 4 years and
5 months ago when cross-compiling a Windows target. We actually don't use any
function from the Windows GDI (Graphics Device Interface) related with drawing
or graphics-related operations.