[netcdfgroup] Detection of curl by configure in 4.1.3

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Detection of curl by configure in 4.1.3
• From: Arlindo da Silva <arlindo.dasilva@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 23:31:28 -0400

Hi,

  It appears that going from NetCDF  4.1.1 to 4.1.3 (I skipped 4.1.2)
configure no longer makes use of curl-config to detect the presence of
libcurl. The current scheme in 4.1.3 is not very reliable and can fail when
curl is built statically (and a whole of set of other libraries besides
-lcurl must be specified.) Of course, a work around is to first set

% export LIBS="`/path/to/curl-config --libs`"

before issuing configure, but really, this should be handled in configure.ac,
specially when INSTALL makes you believe that curl-config is used.

  Am I missing something?

    Arlindo

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