[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Build libcurl statically

[Kirill Yukhin <kyukhin@tarantool.org>]

Hello,

On 16 Aug 05:32, Alexander Turenko wrote:
> We decided to build libcurl statically to avoid problems with libcurl
> versions that Linux distributives ships (see the list below). I also did
> this for Mac OS and FreeBSD to provide more or less uniform build and
> dependencies list across OSes.
> 
> This patchset holds libcurl-7.65.3. AFAIK there is no problems on this
> version that affects our built-in http client. We tested this version
> (also linked statically to tarantool) against the performance
> degradation we observed by our customers on CentOS 7 (#4397) and it
> works good. The following list of issues re built-in http client will
> become unrelevant after this patchset:
> 
> * #4180 ('httpc: redirects are broken with libcurl-7.30 and older');
> * #4389 ('libcurl memory leak');
> * #4397 ('HTTPS seem to be unstable').
> 
> I didn't close them from a commit however, because it would be good to
> do a little extra work on them: at least bisect and understand what is a
> cause of a problem. Say, it is possible that a problem caused by a
> libcurl build option, but not a specific version. This information would
> be useful to be sure we really don't affected by the issues and will not
> step into the problems in the future.
> 
> The patchset contains two patches.
> 
> The first one workarounds a systemd issue that affects built-in pwd
> module when tarantool is linked against libcurl w/o GSS API support
> (this is how we build libcurl to link it statically). The problem
> appears on Fedora 29. This is prerequisite to push the second patch.
> 
> The second patch enables static libcurl build, enables it by default and
> adjusts all relevant scripts and dependencies.
> 
> https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/4318
> https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/tree/imeevma/gh-4318-link-libcurl-statically-full-ci

I've checked the patchset into 1.10, 2.1, 2.2 and master.

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Regards, Kirill Yukhin